Bend It Like Beckham
2002 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
In west London, 18-year-old Jess Bharma dreams of playing professional football like her idol David Beckham, but her Punjabi Sikh parents have more conventional plans for her: a law degree and marriage. Jules, a blond tomboy, spots Jess playing football in the park and invites her to join the local team. Meanwhile, Jess is forced to help with the preparations for the wedding of her older sister, and is then banned from playing football for shaming the family by exposing her legs in shorts. Jess resorts to playing in secret...
Direction Gurinder Chadha
Cast Parminder Nagra · Keira Knightley · Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Anupam Kher · Archie Panjabi · Shaznay Lewis · Frank Harper · Juliet Stevenson
Soundtrack Craig Pruess
Screenplay Gurinder Chadha · Paul Mayeda Berges · Guljit Bindra
Cinematography Lin Liang-Zhong
Original title Bend It Like Beckham
5.6
20K votes (FilmAffinity)
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