Bend It Like Beckham

This film came out of supposed nowhere and rocked the socks off of audiences world wide and with damn fine good reason. Never mind it being a sports film, it is a merely a vehicle there to allow writer/director Gurinder Chadha to explore the differences of culture, the burden of tradition and the need to follow one's own path. This is all I want to tell you about it as it is something you must discover for yourself. Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley are fantastic in the leading roles and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (who was bang on as Steerpike in GORMENGHAST) is great as the coach and male love interest. Juliet Stevenson has a film stealing support role here as well in a film I guarantee will lift your spirits and leave you with a wonderful smile on your face.