Bend It Like Beckham

Beckham - further openings

Also at the following:

April 11
Bala Cynwyd PA Bala 3 Theaters

April 18
Bensalem PA AMC Neshaminy 24
Oaks PA Marketplace 24
Conshohocken PA Plymouth Meeting Cinema 10
Warrington PA Warrington Crossing 22

 

Also Ritz in Voorhees on April 4th.

 

What an enjoyable film! Good soccer highlights. Good up-to-date allusions. They showed highlights from the first season of the WUSA including Kelly Smith's great goal against San Diego. Various subplots were good. It's a simple story that everyone has seen before but the best stories are always those with which the audience can identify. Love the beginning.

 

Parminder Nagra, the star of BILB, did the first kick at the Crew-Galaxy match. Would have made more sense that she was at the Courage-Freedom match.

 

Bend it like Baldy is a fun film - in LA today at the Grove theater (Fairfax and Third) if you're wearing a soccer jersey at the 4 pm show, you'll get a free ticket. There's also juggling contests and free kick demonstrations.

 

Yeah but the promotional tie-ins are much deeper w/MLS.

 

Watch ABC's 'The View' tomorrow (4/8), as Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley from Bend It Like Beckham will be on. Check your local listings to see what time it's on locally.

 

The two stars will be at the Freedom home opener where they will signing autographs at halftime and after the match. They will also do the honorary kick-off.

http://www.washingtonfreedom.com/353126.html

 

Saw the movie last weekend, coincidentally with an Indian co-worker and other friends. She loved the Indian family scenes. The explanation of the offside rule is priceless - we were laughing out loud!

 

The WUSA was right to go hook onto this film. Look at this review and the people the reviewer talks to and what they say.

http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-0/1051771301268420.xml

 

Imdb reports

"British movie Bend It Like Beckham is continuing to rise in the American box office - living up to experts' estimates that it is on course to be a big smash. The soccer movie quietly broke into America's top 10 over the weekend during the eighth week of its run - putting it on course to cross the $11 million mark. After opening in just six theaters in early March, the movie is now playing in 483 locations across America - far fewer than any other movie in the top 12. Film studio Fox Searchlight plans to continue to roll the movie about a young Indian girl who drams of being a soccer star out at a slow pace. It will expand to more than 500 theaters this weekend. The film's rise is much like 2002 comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding which eventually scooped $225 million"

 

Loved the opening sequence and conversation between the mother and Lineker. Every time I see him, I laugh. He is just so goofy. Well for this Anglophile, there wasn't anything foreign in it. I still think Victory is overrated. The Cup is a great film about culture and soccer. I love the offside explanation scene truly, madly deeply. Haven't had the opportunity to explain offside yet but I can understand the troubles that people have with it. Certainly, some refs have trouble remembering. This and "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" didn't not exactly invent the wheel when it comes to story lines but that is what makes the appeal so much larger. After all, most jokes in the world come about through stereotypes or familiar situations. Curry was made for the returning bureaucrats of the British Raj and is not technically Indian. It's hard to explain. Of course, my favorite book on the US and Soccer is "Offside" but then again that shouldn't be too surprising. Pro-American attitudes in the film were okay. For now it is true. But other countries are starting to offer players opportunities to combine a solid education with soccer playing as well. Also "Ya-Ya sisterhood" has been trashed by my female envoy(otherwise known as my sister) to the world of "Chick flicks". I still prefer good literature so it's Jane Austen all the way. Instead of such movies, I'd take a movie with Sandra Bullock anytime.