Bend it like Beckham

Resource Information

The work Bend it like Beckham represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Loogootee Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Bend it like Beckham

Statement of responsibility

Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Kintop Pictures presents in association with the Film Council and FilmFoerderung Hamburg ... a Kintop Pictures/Bend It Films/ROC Media/Road Movies co-production ; a Gurinder Chadha film ; directed by Gurinder Chadha ; produced by Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha ; written by Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges

Creator

• Bend it like Beckham (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Bend It Films
• Fox Searchlight Pictures
• Kintop Pictures (Firm)
• ROC Media
• Road Movies Filmproduktion
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
• Berges, Paul Mayeda
• Bindra, Guljit
• Chadha, Gurinder
• Harper, Frank, 1962-
• Holes, Ralph
• Kher, Anupam, 1955-
• Knightley, Keira, 1985-
• Krish, Justin
• Lewis, Shaznay
• Lin, Liangzhong
• Nagra, Parminder, 1975-
• Nayar, Deepak
• Panjabi, Archie
• Pruess, Craig
• Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan, 1977-
• Stevenson, Juliet

Subject

• Comedy films
• Comedy films | Great Britain
• East Indians -- Cultural assimilation -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films | Great Britain
• trueForeign films
• Soccer -- England -- Drama
• Sports films
• Sports films | Great Britain
• Women soccer players -- England -- Drama
• Women, East Indian -- England -- Drama

Genre

• Comedy films
• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Foreign films
• trueGreat Britain
• Sports films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Jong Lin ; editor, Justin Krish ; original music, Craig Pruess ; costume designer, Ralph Holes ; production designer, Nick Ellis

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13, for language and some sexual situations

Language note

English (5.1 Dolby surround), French (5.1 Dolby surround) and Spanish (Dolby surround) language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

.B45 2003

PerformerNote

Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson

Runtime

112

Target audience

general

Technique

live action