MANN-CHIS-TAH!!!
If you've ever spent any time at all there you'll understand exactly what the title means - to be a Man City fan - a simple, innocent, masochistic, naive Blue - in a City like that, where all the brains get theirselves down to Old Trafford, where the prawn sucking, bloated, ... Read review
Jimmy Grimble would do anything to become a football pro but a lack of self-confidence on ... more
the pitch is standing between him and his childhood dream.His misery is compounded further when his mother invites her latest moronic boyfriend to move in rather ...
Jimmy Grimble would do anything to become a football pro but a lack of self-confidence on ... more
the pitch is standing between him and his childhood dream. His misery is compounded when his mother invites her latest moronic boyfriend to move in rather than ...
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There's Only One Jimmy Grimbledetails the struggle of one young Manchester City fan in a ... more
school full of United supporters. It's a classic Northern, post-The Full Montyfilm: full of gritty street shots and even grittier relationships, as somehow those present manage to take a fierce pride from their surroundings. The soundtrack is near exemplary too--new Northern heroes like Birmingham's mighty Asian Dub Foundation and Freestylers nestle next to older sorts like Frankie Goes To Hollywood ("Two Tribes") and the Stone Roses' classic "Waterfall". The odd Southern act (Fatboy Slim's epochal "Right Here Right Now") is chosen tastefully and slots right in too. As an introduction to a certain strand of impassioned British music, this album is damn near untouchable--even with the glaring omission of famed Man City supporters, the Gallagher Brothers. Their loss, not ours.--Jerry Thackray
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Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Production Year: 2004 - Drama - Director: Nick Cassavetes - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over, 12 years and over - Starring: Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Production Year: 1995 - Drama - Director: Ang Lee - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Greg Wise, Hugh Laurie, Robert Hardy
Advantages: Great story, great scenery, great performances Disadvantages: A bit too lovely
MANN-CHIS-TAH!!!
If you've ever spent any time at all there you'll understand exactly what the title means - to be a Man City fan - a simple, innocent, masochistic, naive Blue - in a City like that, where all the brains get theirselves down to Old Trafford, where the prawn sucking, bloated, arrogant, smug bastard Big Nobs turn out, is to know true Purgatory - ever the dog end, left over eating underdogs among their affluent richer ... ...that pitiful hang dog expression very early in life, born to expect little and receive even less - they may be downtrodden and dismal losers, but they dream of glory, of one day pitting themselves as equals, as once they did in the days of Bell, Lee, Summerbee and Marsh when they were Up There, mixing it with the biggest of the big boys, back then when United were perennial under-achievers, when their magical triumvirate of Law, Best and Charlton ... more
MANN-CHIS-TAH!!!
If you've ever spent any time at all there you'll understand exactly what the title means - to be a Man City fan - a simple, innocent, masochistic, naive Blue - in a City like that, where all the brains get theirselves down to Old Trafford, where the prawn sucking, bloated, arrogant, smug bastard Big Nobs turn out, is to know true Purgatory - ever the dog end, left over eating underdogs among their affluent richer relations.
A City fan learns to adopt that pitiful hang dog expression very early in life, born to expect little and receive even less - they may be downtrodden and dismal losers, but they dream of glory, of one day pitting themselves as equals, as once they did in the days of Bell, Lee, Summerbee and Marsh when they were Up There, mixing it with the biggest of the big boys, back then when United were perennial under-achievers, when their magical triumvirate of Law, Best and Charlton couldn't win a corner let alone a Cup.
Now that mythology, the magic of Manchester, is what Jimmy Grimble is all about, and you get a wonderful fairytale story of young love, sport and the Theatre of Dreams, rooted firmly in the muck and mud of Rusholme and Moss Side and Cheetham Hill and a thousand back to back terraces.
It's a fanciful little tale right enough, quintessentially English in that small time, small vista sort of way, but undeniably gripping and quite, quite splendid, undeniably a little masterpiece which you'd have to travel a million miles to find something similar to.
It tells the story of the downtrodden loser Jimmy Grimble, who is bullied and reviled wherever he goes, but who suddenly becomes the unlikely star of his school team when he is given some magical old timer's boots, and starts shooting goals home from every unlikely angle known to man.
True fairy tales never happen of course, as we all know, but films ain't always about realism and the truth and gritty reality - at times they need to be doused with a little fairy dust and people like this sort of magic and I certainly do...
Please watch this film and allow yourself to be soaked up in the atmosphere of British movie making at its ultimate - a hundred brilliant performances, a hundred sharp lines, a hundred minutes of absolute charm and sheer, total enjoyment.
Ray Winstone, Gina McKee, Ben Miller and Robert Carlyle, of course, but above all of these you get those bloody wonderful kids, not actors but born livers of fairy tales.
Football at the very worst of times is a very uplifting and enthralling experience, but told as it is here in true Boy's Own fashion, it is classical, magical stuff, the sort of thing that sends you off to bed happy with a little warm feeling inside you, even when you're a jug eared loser like Jimmy Grimble.
Lewis McKenzie plays Jimmy Grimble, a rabid City fan who finally manages to get into his school’s Under 16 side, despite the bullying of Gorgeous Gordon (Bobby Power), a thug who thinks he’s David Beckham and whose Dad exerts all sorts of influence to get him star billing. He’s undoubtedly a good player, but is a spiteful little bleeder, and one of the most thoroughly evil villains of the year. However, the confidence which Jimmy gets from the magic boots inspires him to turn in match winning performance after match winning performance to take them all the way to the final at Maine Road and you know they’re going to live happily ever after (aren’t they?)…
PS Absolutely brilliant soundtrack
Director: John Hay Producers: Sarah Radclyffe, Jeremy Bolt, Alison Jackson Screenplay: Simon Mayle, John Hay, Rik Carmichael DOP: John De Borman Editor: Oral Norrie Ottey Production Designer: Michael Carlin Production Company: Sarah Radclyffe Productions / Impact Films Distributor: Pathe Distribution UK, 2000, 110 mins
Advantages: Feel-good film! Disadvantages: Sometimes floats a little close to unreality
...sharp and relevant. Oh, and there's a love interest for Jimmy too - the beautiful new girl Sara, as much of an outsider as him, but comfortable with it... I liked this movie a lot - it floats perilously close to unreality at times but somehow manages to stay rooted firmly enough in today and its' very northern English heritage to make watching it an inspiring and very funny experience. The acting is faultless and McKenzie's debut deserves to be followed ...
lily7star 25.03.2001
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I've always been highly sceptical about football movies. Most of them are terrible. This is the best I've ever seen - and it ranks alongside all the best British movies of the past.
Yeah, it's a story of love, romance, and football dreams that's been done a million times before, yeah the ending is predictable, but this is the most genuinely heart warming film I've seen in a long, long time.
The football storyline is pretty basic. If anyone out ... ...remember a story called Billy's Boots, where a young lad got given some magic boots and became a kind of Paul Gascoigne on the football pitch. This is the same, and does make football side somewhat predictable, yet still compelling enough.
It's the things that go beyond the football which make this such a great feel-good movie. Aside from Jimmy overcoming the bullies and going on to greatness, there are so many other elements. The twists and turns ...
BennyRialto 23.03.2001
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I have just hired the film "There's only one Jimmy Grimble" and I must say that I had a very enjoyable evening. It's light-hearted and a bit on the predictable side but all in all makes pleasant viewing.
Jimmy Grimble is a small kid who supports Man City and gets regularly bullied by the bigger school kids who just happen to be Man Utd fans. He and his mum live in a council flat and football is Jimmy's life. One day when he is trying to escape his ... ...witch-like) and she gives him a pair of "magic football boots". The bullies steal Jimmy's football boots so he is forced to use the one's that the old lady gave him which have surprising results.
Jimmy decides to try out for the School football team which has a very apathetic coach (played by Robert Carlyle). The reason for the coach's apathy is revealed later in the film. The Under 16's Schools Cup gets underway and Jimmy starts off as Sub but ...
stinky2 09.03.2001
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Advantages: Truly a happy-go-lucky film. Very entertaining. Excellent acting on all counts, and top music. Disadvantages: We've seen it all before. Very predictable, and quite cliched as well.
...a decent boyfriend.
Sadly, there's nothing immediately original about "There's Only One Jimmy Grimble". We've seen it all hundreds of times before, and it's a shame. British cinema, that once dared to be different and exciting (Trainspotting, A Taste Of Honey) is now bland, and runs to a set formula. "There's Only One Jimmy Grimble" is full of cliches, and it took no Einsteing to realise where the two-dimensional plot was going to take us next. ... ...the next Hollywood.
That said however, "There's Only One Jimmy Grimble" is thoroughly entertaining, and will keep you amused for the full duration. The music and editing is top notch, and the humour is (nearly) always spot on.
Robert Carlyle has now proved himelf as the multi-talented performer that he is, slipping just as seemlessly into the role of football coach as he did into drunken lout, down and out worker, or frenchman out with a vengeance.
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Kouros 23.08.2000
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Advantages: relaxing and funny Disadvantages: none
Jimmy Grimble. This new British film is released on 25th August. I was sent a special preview ticket and watched it this morning. It’s a pleasant coming-of-age comedy drama about a lad called Jimmy Grimble who lives in Manchester and loves football. The film follows his progress from bullied, girl-shy youngster via a “magic” pair of boots given to him by a strange old lady, to his crowning glory – scoring two goals in the Final of the Schools’ Cup ...
TTeearu 13.08.2000
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Jimmy Grimble lacks self confidence in a big way and that is what stands between him and his childhood dream of becoming a professional footballer. When he is given a pair of magic boots by an old lady things start to change...
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
PATHE DISTRIBUTION; 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
13/08/2001
No of Discs
1
Catalogue No
P 9010 DVD
Barcode
5060002830109
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Documentary, Deleted Scenes, Audio Commentary - 1. John Hay - Director, Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical, Storyboards
DVD Description
This football fairy tale follows the life of young Jimmy Grimble (Lewis McKenzie), a shy Manchester school boy. When an old woman (Jane Lapotaire) rescues Jimmy from being roughed up by bullies, she gives him a pair of boots that belonged to a City legend. Soon Jimmy's on his way to becoming a top player. The charming film also features Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, and Gina McKee.
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