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27 March 2009 (UK) morePlot:
A look at Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United. full summary | add synopsisNewsDesk:
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Latest MPAA Ratings: Bulletin No: 2078
(From Rope Of Silicon. 15 July 2009, 10:40 AM, PDT)
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Not bad, young man. moreCast
(Credited cast)| Michael Sheen | ... | Brian Clough | |
| Colm Meaney | ... | Don Revie | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Giles Alderson | ... | Colin Todd | |
| Mark Bazeley | ... | Austin Mitchell | |
| Christopher Boulstridge | ... | Colin Boulton | |
| Bill Bradshaw | ... | Terry Yorath | |
| Damian Broadbent | ... | Emlyn Hughes | |
| Jim Broadbent | ... | Sam Longson | |
| Mark Cameron | ... | Norman Hunter | |
| Elizabeth Carling | ... | Barbara Clough | |
| Martin Compston | ... | John O'Hare | |
| Ryan Day | ... | Simon Clough | |
| Joseph Dempsie | ... | Duncan McKenzie | |
| Isabella Eades-Jones | ... | Elizabeth Clough | |
| Wayne Ewart | ... | Tommy Smith | |
| Stephen Graham | ... | Billy Bremner | |
| Stuart Gray | ... | Eddie Gray | |
| Alex Harker | ... | Allan Clarke | |
| Colin Harris | ... | John McGovern | |
| Nathan Head | ... | Photographer | |
| Carl Hicken | ... | Alec Lindsay - Liverpool | |
| Mark Jameson | ... | Head Groundsman | |
| Tomasz Kocinski | ... | Roy McFarland | |
| James MacColl | ... | Luton Town Player | |
| Lesley Maylett | ... | Paul Reaney | |
| Brian McCardie | ... | Dave Mackay | |
| Peter McDonald | ... | Johnny Giles | |
| Ben McFarlane | ... | Kevin Keegan | |
| Chris Moore | ... | Paul Madeley | |
| Stephen Nicholas | ... | Alan Durban | |
| Paul O'Brien | ... | Phil Thompson | |
| Paul O'Brien | ... | Phil Thompson - Liverpool | |
| Tom Ramsbottom | ... | Trevor Cherry | |
| Laurie Rea | ... | Terry Hennessey | |
| Jimmy Reddington | ... | Keith Archer | |
| Stewart Robertson | ... | Archie Gemmill | |
| Maurice Roëves | ... | Jimmy Gordon | |
| Alex Rogerson | ... | Phil Boersma | |
| John Savage | ... | Gordon McQueen | |
| Timothy Spall | ... | Peter Taylor | |
| David Stevenson | |||
| Oliver Stokes | ... | Nigel Clough | |
| Matthew Storton | ... | Peter Lorimer | |
| Liam Thomas | ... | Les Cocker | |
| Danny Tomlinson | ... | David Harvey | |
| Keiran Waite | ... | Ron Webster | |
| Gillian Waugh | ... | Lillian Taylor | |
| Craig Williams | ... | Joe Jordan | |
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Factual errors: Derby County's rise up the Second Division table in 1968-69 is cleverly shown by superimposing a league table that clocks up points over a montage of footage of their games. However, the table almost always clocks up two points at a time. Derby drew a number of games over the season so the table should have risen by only a single point on occasion. moreFAQ
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The life of the egocentric one gets the big screen treatment - another feather in his cap, and one to put over Shanks, Busby, Mercer, Allison, Paisley etc. The fact he shares the spotlight with Don Revie would be his only disappointment. One may find the numerous anachronisms and inaccuracies distracting, i.e. Dave Mackay had left Derby before Clough and Taylor's resignation, and that 5-0 Leeds triumph came the year after County's championship triumph (or robbery as devout Geldard Enders would maintain) - I know, I was there that great day wallowing in revenge for the previous year's injustices.
Without resorting to caricature, Sheen effortlessly conveys Clough's rampant narcissism and hubris. His obsession with Revie is portrayed as something he needs to work out of his system before getting his life back on keel. Revie is depicted as such a cartoon villain that one is almost disappointed that he doesn't appear clad in top hat and black cloak, chuckling evilly as he twirls his moustache and ties Cloughs' two sons to the railway line. Colm Meaney is uncanny in his depiction of the Elland Road supremo and his face captures the haunted look of the man who must have felt the fates were against him at times. Spall seems physically miscast as Taylor but puts across the fact that Pete was Clough's often unheeded moral conscience - a fact illustrated by how Clough went to the bad in his later years at Forest when Taylor wasn't around. Jim Broadbent is every provincial businessman made good as Sam Longson who must have needed the patience of a saint in his latter years at Derby.
Occasionally, the script's pace works against it. Clough and Taylor have barely signed the contract with Mike Bamber when they're off to Majorca. It might have been better to have a scene or two showing their tribulations at Brighton which increased Clough's desire to snatch at the first decent offer that came his way. I still remember hearing the humiliating defeat they suffered at home to Bristol Rovers on the coach back from Elland Road on the radio - and the ensuing hysterical laughter. To think, one year later, we were laughing the other side of our faces.