Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing for fun one day, her impressive skills are seen by Jules Paxton, who then convinces Jess to play for her semi-pro team. Jess uses elaborate excuses to hide her matches from her family while also dealing with her romantic feelings for her coach, Joe.
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He frees Guinevere (Keira Knightley, "Pirates of the Caribbean," "Bend It Like Beckham"), an imprisoned Woad, and decides he will march the oppressed peoples away from the Saxons, whose drums can already be heard in the distance.
Even the first movie I saw her in, Bend It Like Beckham...that was really Parminder Nagra's movie; Parminder walked away with it.
The players have proved themselves performers in other films — Owen in “Croupier,” Gruffudd in cable TV's “Horatio Hornblower” series, Knightley in “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” — but here they're adrift in a sea of droning blather.
After playing a tough character in Bend it like Beckham she was, taking nothing away from her performance in Pirates, the requisite "girl" in that film.
Even in films centered on otherness, like Bend It Like Beckham, the white best friend is given equal space in the advertising of the film, and the original queer angle was written out in favor of a love triangle.
The very hot Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean) also stars as a young bride who finally realizes why her new husband's best friend has been treating her so coldly; he's in love with her too.
We can understand why the poor guy would be in love with his friends wife simply because she is played by Knightley, who became everyones #1 crush after "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbean".
This Elizabeth is played by Keira Knightley, who's become British film's No.1 girl since she got her first break as the heroine's best friend in Bend It Like Beckham.