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Release Date:
2 September 2005 (Iceland) more
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The beautiful game just got prettier
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The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team... more | add synopsis
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4 nominations more
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Also Known As:
Eleven Men Out (International: English title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.
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Canada:85 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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Orri: Dad can be tough, but I'm trying to ease him into this homosexual vibe that's going on here, I rented him that movie Philadelphia, with that actor...
Pétur: Tom Cruise?
Ottar Thor: Tom Hanks!
Orri: Yes, him... About the brave homo, who has AIDS and dies.
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References Barfly (1987) more

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The flip side of Brokeback, 20 March 2006
7/10
Author: Martin Bradley (MOscarbradley@aol.com) from Derry, Ireland

As 'coming out' movies go this cheap and immensely cheerful Icelandic comedy is as nifty as you could wish. Ottar is his local soccer team's best player when, in the film's opening minutes, he announces to his team mates, his father and his teenage son, not to mention a local journalist there to do a sports story, that he is gay. What follows is a highly entertaining, feel-good movie about being true to yourself and winning, if not all of the people then some of the people, (the right people, presumably), round to your liberal way of thinking.

It doesn't shirk away from more serious issues such as homophobia and the effect of coming out has on your wife and family, but as Ottar finds other players to join him when he is ostracized by his own team and eventually form a 'gay team' of their own, they are not interested in gay agitprop but in simply having a good time. This they manage to do despite the almost perpetual rain that seems to plague Iceland, at least when this film was made. Very enjoyable, then. All that's missing is any trace of football.

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