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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)
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25 August 2000 (UK)
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and no substitute for life
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Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Lewis McKenzie | ... | Jimmy Grimble |
| Jane Lapotaire | ... | Alice Brewer |
| Gina McKee | ... | Donna |
 | Ben Miller | ... | Johnny Two Dogs |
| Wayne Galtrey | ... | Walkway Kid |
| Ciaran Griffiths | ... | Psycho |
| Bobby Power | ... | 'Gorgeous' Gordon Burley |
 | Robert Carlyle | ... | Eric Wirral |
| Samia Smith | ... | Sara (as Samia Ghadie) |
| Antony Marsh | ... | Crane (as Anthony Marsh) |
| Sean Delaney | ... | Brick |
| Charles Denton | ... | The Cat |
| Azmier Ahmed | ... | Elvis |
| John McArdle | ... | Headmaster |
| Ann Aris | ... | Governor 1 |
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Jimmy Grimble (France)
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106 min | Germany:98 min (TV version)
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Iceland:LH |
Norway:11 (DVD rating) |
Australia:M |
Germany:6 |
Hong Kong:IIA |
Netherlands:AL |
Spain:T |
Sweden:7 |
UK:12
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References The Terminator (1984)
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Right Here Right Now
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Buying a ticket to a sports movie is like buying a train ticket to, say, Manchester. It's pretty obvious that at the end of the journey you will get to Manchester, in fact you would be annoyed if you didn't get that ending. But the trick is to make sure the journey has some surprises along the way and keeps interesting. Jimmy Grimble manages that fairly successfully.
This isn't a good film in relation to other recent British films released recently, it is a good film full stop.
One main reason it succeeds is the screenplay. The plotting, characterisation and dialogue are basic but well done. The direction, however, is very well done. Football has never looked so good on film.
I saw the last British football film When Saturday Comes on television for free and still demanded my money back, everything about it was awful. Jimmy Grimble has a lower profile and a low-key release but is infinitely superior on every level.
While it is the young that will derive the most pleasure out of this, adults will also get something out of it.