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13/08/1999 Comedy, Romance 1h 35m
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It's a game of two pubs!

Overview

Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.

  1. Mick Davis

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Max Beesley

    Wullie Smith

  2. Isla Blair

    Sheila Bailey

  3. James Cosmo

    Billy Bailey

  4. Richard E. Grant

    Gorgeous Gus

  5. Laura Fraser

    Rosemary Bailey

  6. Ian Holm

    Big Tam

  7. David Hayman

    Scrapper

  8. Tom Sizemore

    Buffalo

  9. Neil Morrissey

    Piss Off

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn
Written by Peter McGinn on 2021-05-02
This movie can be harmless fun as long as you can lower your expectations more than a little. The entire premise of the film seems more than a little dubious to me. Why would owners of two pubs 100 years before make a bet based on one of them winning 99 matches in a row? Was one of the teams so bad and with no hope of ever getting better that making such a long-term bet based on the next 100 games made sense? Or, more likely, was this a plot gimmick dreamed up by the scriptwriters to create cheap but instant suspense? Yes, that was my conclusion also.

Still, the movie was entertaining enoug...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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