When Saturday Comes (1996)
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British writer-director Maria Giese filmed this independent sports drama, which centers around the wasted opportunities of young footballer Jimmy Muir (Sean Bean). Muir works in a brewery and lives with his parents and younger brother in the hard-scrabble industrial city of Sheffield, England. He loves to play soccer, but he is arrogant, disrespectful, and frequently drunk, and he has never made much of his talents. While playing for a local pub's team, Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson (Pete Postlethwaite), who recruits him for a higher league. Meanwhile, Jimmy embarks on an affair with a young Irish woman named Annie Docherty (Emily Lloyd), and he gets her pregnant. Jimmy gets offered a tryout with a professional club, Sheffield United. But the night before his tryout, he beds a stripper and gets roaring drunk. The next day he is useless, and he blows his big chance to make something of himself. Annie, who badly wanted him to succeed to get them both a better life, then leaves him. Jimmy finally realizes that he must change if he is going to have any kind of a future. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Sean Bean - Jimmy Muir
- Pete Postlethwaite - Ken Jackson
- Ann Bell - Sarah Muir
- Ken Kitson - Careers Officer
- Chris Walker - Mac
- Bill Stewart - Bullneck
- John Tams - Brewery Worker
- Freddie Fletcher - Judd
- James McKenna - George McCabe
- Emily Lloyd - Annie Docherty
- John McEnery - Joe Muir
- Melanie Hill - Mary Muir
- Rita May - Mabel
- David Leland - Priest
- Craig Kelly - Russell Muir
- Sharon Jackson - Susie, Barmaid
- Peter Gunn - Tommy
- Director(s):
- Maria Giese
- Writer(s):
- James Daly, Maria Giese
- Producer(s):
- Peter Mcaleese, James Daly, Christopher Lambert
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