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Believe (2013)

Drama | 94 minutes
3,02 22 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: David Scheinmann

Stars: Brian Cox, Natascha McElhone and Jack Smith

IMDb score: 5,8 (1.149)

Releasedate: 4 October 2013

Believe plot

Manchester 1984, the eleven-year-old football talent Georgie invariably ends up in trouble by playing stupid pranks and petty theft. When he tries to steal the wallet of Sir Matt Busby, the famous ex-Manchester United manager, he manages to grab it. However, he sees Georgie's talent and decides to temporarily return as a coach to prepare Georgie and his friends' team for the Manchester Junior Cup.

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coumi

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Negligible film that you quickly forget. Towards the end so sentimental that even a football fan like me finally drops out. The visions that Busby regularly has in Believe, concerning his deceased players are as uncomfortable as they are ridiculous. I don't know if the respectable Cox portrays Busby well here because I am just a bit too young to have known this footballer. In terms of appearance he certainly doesn't look like him. In itself not that badly made for the target audience (teenagers and/or fervent Manchester United fans) I think, but for others a bit too slimy and sticky. It would have been more interesting to honor this man with a strong film about the infamous period 1955-1969. That film apparently exists and is called United, so I'll have to watch it soon.

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Theunissen

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A solid film with characters who all struggle with unprocessed grief and unguided urge to act. With nice British 80s music from, among others, "New Order", "Dead Or Alive" and "Madness".

Brain Cox (Sir Matt Busby) plays the factual material (including the plane crash that Matt Busby survived, while most of the United players died) with seriousness and respect, as he coaches a group of working-class boys for a football match, namely the Manchester Junior Cup. Not only does the love of the sport play an important role, but so does the British class system.

Brain Cox does well, but the young talent Jack Smith (in the role of Georgie Gallagher) plays his older and experienced opponent off the map. Together they carry this Drama film, which sometimes becomes a bit too heavy for the young target group. The fact that the beautiful Natascha McElhone (as the mother of Georgie Gallagher, who is a widow) also plays in this film, is of course a bonus.

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mrklm

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Manchester, 1984. Georgie Gallagher [Jack Smith] is a talented young footballer with a lack of discipline on and off the field. By chance, Georgie's outrageous behaviour brings him into contact with 75-year-old Sir Matt Busby [Brian Cox], who has led Georgie's favourite club Manchester United to the pinnacle of European football after a plane crash in 1958 (still commemorated annually by the club) in which eight players and three officials of the club were killed. Matt sees an opportunity to get Georgie and his seven friends on the right path and/or keep them there by personally preparing them for the Youth Cup tournament that takes place two weeks later, together with his right-hand man and good friend Bob [Philip Jackson]. A protective single mother [Natasha McElhone], a stiff, demanding teacher [Toby Stephens] and a denouement that you can see coming well in advance, testify to a lack of originality. But Cox and Jackson are a beautiful couple in this dramatization of a true story. Nice for children because they have no reason to be bothered by the many clichés.

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