| Title: | Bend It Like Beckham | |
| Director 1: | Gurinder Chadha | |
| Country: | UK | |
| Year: | 2002 | |
| length: | 108 mins | |
| Colour/b-w: | colour | |
| Genre: | feature film | |
| Screenwriter: | Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges | |
| Cinematographer: | Jong Lin | |
| Editor: | Justin Krish | |
| Producer: | Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha | |
| Production company: | Kintop Pictures in assoc. with The Film Council and Filmförderung Hamburg | |
| Cast: | Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightly, Anupam Kher, Jonathan Rhys Meyers | |
| Location: | Not available | |
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| Synopsis: | Eighteen-year-old Jess' parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But Jess wants to play football like her hero, David Beckham. Playing in the park, she is spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's football team. The girls are the same age and they share the same dreams. As they become firm friends, their team really start to go places. But Jess's parents do not understand why she will not settle down, study for law school and learn to cook the perfect Indian meal. Jess is torn between her team's and her family's expectations, and things come to a head when an important match and her sister's wedding are scheduled for the same day. No viewing copy available. | |
| Keyword 1: | youth | |
| Keyword 2: | sports | |
| Keyword 3: | Asian | |
| Keyword 4: | white | |
| Keyword 5: | family | |
| Keyword 6: | gender | |
| Keyword 7: | women | |
| Keyword 8: | first generation | |
| Keyword 9: | second generation | |
| Keyword 10: | mother-daughter relationship | |
| Keyword 11: | father-daughter relationship | |
| Keyword 12: | food | |
| Text Reference 1: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
| Text Reference 2: | Bend It Like Beckham: A Distributor's Dream | |
| Text Reference 3: | Elfmetersieg | |
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