Loach has created the first real grim-meets-feelgood film. It offers guilt-free fun and laughs for football and Loach fans alike.
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06/16/09
Looking for Eric (2009)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:37
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Ken Loach’s latest is an uplifting, entertaining and amusing socio-drama featuring a match-winning performance from Eric Cantona.
Theatrical Release:12-06-2009
Synopsis: Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... His wife has gone, his stepsons are out of control and the house was chaotic even before a cement mixer appeared in the front garden. Life... [More]
Starring: Steve Evets, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, John Henshaw
Director: Ken Loach
Reviews for Looking for Eric
Looking for Eric is likely to be as popular a film as Loach has made since he began working in 1964. They may even have to adjust the old cliché: it only takes 45 years to score a goal, Ken.
06/16/09
Looking For Eric is a British film that lifts the spirits and might even bring a tear to the eye. Loach has scored a winner.
06/12/09
Funny, touching and cheerfully unlikely in every sense, this ranks among the great British filmmaker's most enjoyable films.
06/12/09
Top CriticIt’s got all the heart and humour of a mainstream comedy-drama, with none of the tedious predictability.
06/12/09
It's a wonderfully surreal yarn which nonetheless stays rooted in the gritty real world as typically seen by Loach.
06/12/09
Call it Looking For Box Office: king of gritty social realism Loach has made a wonderful feel-good hit.
06/12/09
Looking For Eric is his most entertaining film yet, a feelgood, footy-mad gem that takes spectators through several rounds of anguish to a cheer-inducing finale of hope and glory.
06/12/09
With less of the grit but still plenty of the earthy humour Loach is renowned for, this walks the indie/ commercial line with assurance.
06/12/09
One of Loach's most entertaining, uplifting films.
06/12/09
Looking For Eric is not so much a game of two halves as a chaotic kickabout, in which the rules of the game keep changing. It will score with some people but, I confess, I was looking for more.
06/12/09
A big-hearted, earthy and highly amusing comedy, it's compassionate, feelgood fare of the very first order.
06/12/09
The thoroughly charming, amusing and insightful Looking For Eric is a complete pleasure... a Ken Loach film brimming with wit and wisdom, interspersed with classic archive moments of Cantona magic.
06/12/09
Play It Again, Eric... Ken Loach perfectly captures the feeling of football and the need for hope. Touching and hilarious — a blinder.
06/12/09
Top CriticSomething conjured from the high, fey ethers of wish-fulfilment whimsy.
06/12/09
Laverty has a proven track record as a grim social realist; he is less assured as a comic fantasist; and he is absolutely hopeless when he tries to combine the two.
06/12/09
There’s no doubting that Looking for Eric is a lively piece of entertainment. It is always satisfying to see an arch-realist testing his certainties, even reaching from time to time, as Loach does here, into the joyfully fantastical.
06/12/09
An enjoyable, well directed drama with strong performances from a superb cast. It's also quite possibly Ken Loach's most upbeat movie to date.
06/12/09
An unusually warm, funny and slightly surreal drama about a man rediscovering himself. Even a rather overwrought plot can't undermine the engaging characters and insightful observations.
06/12/09
Like all great football films, Looking For Eric isn't really about football. Instead, it uses the Beautiful Game as a way to tell a beautiful story, about loyalty, trust, and friendship.
06/12/09
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