Event Details
Jesminder “Jess” Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) dreams of playing professional soccer, but her strict Sikh parents have designs on her future as a lawyer and wife. So when Jess is recruited to join the local amateur team by the confident Jules (Keira Knightley), Jess keeps the hobby from her family, until a publicized match forces her father to reckon with his daughter’s true passion. Named for a kick technique popularized by English soccer star David Beckham, this British comedy was a critical success that inspired a generation of women to take up the sport.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
2002 | 112 min. | UK/Germany/USA | Color | English | Rated PG-13 | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: Gurinder Chadha
WRITTEN BY: Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges
WITH: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher