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Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers...
His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don't help, but it is Eric's own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink.
In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to challenge Eric to journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past.
As a certain frenchman says, "He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six."
His chaotic family, his wild stepsons, and the cement mixer in the front garden don't help, but it is Eric's own secret that drives him to the brink. Can he face Lily, the woman he once loved? Despite outrageous efforts and misplaced goodwill from his football fan mates, Eric continues to sink.
In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to challenge Eric to journey into the most perilous territory of all - the past.
As a certain frenchman says, "He who is afraid to throw the dice, will never throw a six."
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Language: English
Subtiutles: English for hearing impaired
Subtiutles: English for hearing impaired
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Postmen and other heros!,
By Jane Byars "Jane Byars" (France) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Looking For Eric [DVD] (DVD)
Another gritty, northern, working class drama from Ken Loach.Eric is having a mid-life crisis, and well he might have because up until now his life has been pretty much a disaster. Still hung up over the break-up (his fault) of his first marriage, and living with two stepsons from his second, one of whom is having a crisis of his own, there seems little pleasure to be gained from life as it is and it doesn't look like it's going to get any better. It's quite obvious he's down in the dumps, and his mates, at the Post Office where he works, decide to do something about it. Luckily, one of their group is a bit of a guru and is addicted to self-help novels. With the aid of one of these books and a bit of homespun philosphy, he comes up with a plan to help Eric; namely to find him a guide, someone through whose eyes he will be able to see things more clearly. And that's where Cantona comes in. Eric chooses his idol, King Eric. So it is, with a bit of sage advice from the sultry, confident Cantona, that Eric starts to get his life back on track. Until...... This is a very funny film about ordinary people: love, loneliness, family; mates, football and gangstas! And it contains one of the best lines in a movie ever. The finale just before the finale, when King Eric leads his troops to Victory, the guru says............ As if I'd spoil it for you. Suffice to say I laughed out loud and applauded spontaneously, even though I was watching it on a 14" screen in my own front room. Great movie. Thank you Ken.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A film that manages to be schmaltzy, sad, funny and dark,
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This review is from: Looking For Eric [DVD] (DVD)
This film takes you in all different places. As you would expect Ken Loach gets in digs at the capitalist system which ruins football, he shows the authoritarian police and the oppression of the workers, but there are about 40 other different themes and moods in the film, too. It teeters on the brink of sentimentality at several points, but somehow manages to walk the tightrope. You could watch this film as a pop psychology textbook showing how to turn your life around. (The form could have been modelled on the 12 steps - it starts of with the main character hitting rock bottom, then we watch him climb out of the gutter). Yet it works. The film exudes human warmth and wrestles with some very difficult conflicts.It blends fantasy and reality in a thoroughly satisfying way. A great relationship study of a flawed genius and a flawed postman.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Looking for Eric,
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This review is from: Looking For Eric [DVD] (DVD)
I went to see this film at the cinema when it was release. I enjoyed it so much I had to buy the DVD. If you are a United fan (like myself) don't expect a lot of United action - there are only a few clips.There is a lot of swearing in this film so not for children but its very entertaining and funny.
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