Women East Indian Great Britain Fiction.
Kick it like Beckham
SUMMARY: 'This glorious comedy centers on Jess (Parminder Nagra), an Indian girl born in England whose only desire is to become a football--or, as we say on this side of the Atlantic, soccer--star like her idol, David Beckham; but her traditional family refuses to even consider it.'
Sometimes, to follow your dreams...you've got to bend the rules! A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
Sports films
Features
Drama
Two teenage girls are obsessed with football and fight against prejudice in order to join a girls' football team; one of them, being Asian, also has to cope with the strictures imposed by her parents, who highly disapprove of their daughter's chosen career. Smash hit British comedy.
Fiction
Bend it like Beckham (Motion picture : 2002)
Comedy films
Bend it like Beckham (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica) (2002)
Story of a soccer-obsessed Anglo-Indian girl whose traditionally-minded parents forbid her to play.
Bend it like Beckham (Motion picture)
The daughter of orthodox Sikhs, living in Hounslow, West London, has her heart set on a career in professional soccer, but her parents are completely against it.
Feature film from the UK. Comedy. Follows two 18 year old girls, Jessminder and Jules, as they strive to become professional football players, much to their parents' displeasure.
DVD-Video discs
Sports
Bend It Like Beckham
Soccer films
Sometimes, to follow your dreams ... you've got to bend the rules! A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Eighteen-year-old Jesse just wants to play football, but her parents want her to be a nice, conservative Indian girl. Kicking a ball around the park with the boys is the closest she gets to playing 'real' football, until she is discovered one day by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's football club.
Joue-la comme Beckham = Bend it like Beckham
A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
British films
Bend it like Beckham (family)
The daughter of orthodox Sikhs rebels against her parents by running off to Germany with a soccer team.
Jess is an Indian girl who dreams of life on a more even playing field; whether it be her beloved game of soccer or an opportunity to experience more than what her parents and culture might be ready to accept.
Jess, una noia d'origen pakistanès vol ser una gran jugadora de futbol. Però la seva família la pressiona perquè segueixi les tradicions, trobi un bon marit i abandoni l'esport. Gràcies al suport de la seva amiga Jules aconseguirà entrar en un equip d'esportistes femenines i jugar en competicions, fet que genera un greu enfrontament familiar.
Comedy
Eighteen year-old Jess's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl, but she just wants to play football like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess that means kicking a ball around the local park with the boys until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's football team.
Two teenage girls are obsessed with football and fight against prejudice in order to join a girls' football team; one of them, being Asian, also has to cope with the strictures imposed by her parents, who highly disapprove of their daughter's chosen career.
David Beckham is a British soccer star, whose trademark goal shot is a spectacular, almost unhittable curve across the pitch and into the net. He is idolized by the teenage heroine of this comedy, set in England, who is a gifted athlete, and wants to play soccer professionally, despite almost insurmountable obstacles: there is no professional women's league in England, and she is the daughter of East Indian immigrants, set in their traditional ways, who want their daughter to find a nice husband and be a good wife, not to wear shorts and play sports. She goes to great lengths to hide her growing soccer stardom from her family, but a crisis develops when a very important soccer tournament is scheduled on her sister's wedding day.
Two teenage girls are obsessed with football and fight against prejudice in order to join a girls' football team; one of them, being Asian, also has to cope with the strictures imposed by her parents, who highly disapprove of their daughter's chosen career. Smash hit British comedy that recouped more than Đ11 million at the box office.
Family
Bend it like Beckham
Bend it like Beckham : Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi when you can bend a ball like Beckham?
Eighteen year-old Jess's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play football like her hero, David Beckham, For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's football team.
Fiction films
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. She just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. So, Jess kicks the ball around the local park, where Jules spots her, and invites her to join the local women's team. There is a tournament in Hamburg, and the film follows the two 18 year olds whose hearts are set on a future in professional soccer. Unfortunately for Jess, heart-stopping talent doesn't seem to be enough--not when your parents want you to hang up your football boots, find a nice boy, and learn to cook perfect chapatti.
The daughter of orthodox Sikh parents rebels and tries to make a name for herself in soccer.
Eighteen-year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.
Sometimes, to follow your dreams...you've got to bend the rules! Audiences and critics alike are cheering wildly for this exhilarating...terrific comedy. About a young girl who is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
German films
A teenager of Indian descent living in England discovers that she has a talent for playing soccer and goes against her parents' wishes to compete in an all-girls team.
Feature
Feature films
Jess, an Indian girl born and raised in England, becomes torn between her family's cultural traditions and her dreams of becoming a soccer star.
Een Indiaas meisje gaat tegen de wil van haar ouders toch op voetbal.
A young Indian woman in England is torn between following her dreams of playing on a British women's football team or her parents' wishes for her to get married and have a family. This heartwarming coming-of-age story will have you laughing.
Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.
Eighteen-year-old Jesse just wants to play football, but her parents want her to be a nice, conservative Indian girl. Kicking ball around the park with the boys is the closest she gets to playing 'real' football, until she is discovered one day by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's football club.
Bend it like Beckham Quiero ser como Beckham
A girl hides her passion for football from her Indian family.
Foreign films
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Jesse just wants to play football, but her parents want her to be a nice, conservative Indian girl. Kicking a ball around the park with the boys is the closest she gets to playing 'real' football, until she is discovered one day by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's football club.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.
Alliance Entertainment Singapore (Firm).