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British writer-director Maria Giese filmed this independent sports drama, which centers around the wasted opportunities of young footballer Jimmy Muir (Sean Bean). Muir works in a brewery and lives wi... read more read more...th his parents and younger brother in the hard-scrabble industrial city of Sheffield, England. He loves to play soccer, but he is arrogant, disrespectful, and frequently drunk, and he has never made much of his talents. While playing for a local pub's team, Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson (Pete Postlethwaite), who recruits him for a higher league. Meanwhile, Jimmy embarks on an affair with a young Irish woman named Annie Docherty (Emily Lloyd), and he gets her pregnant. Jimmy gets offered a tryout with a professional club, Sheffield United. But the night before his tryout, he beds a stripper and gets roaring drunk. The next day he is useless, and he blows his big chance to make something of himself. Annie, who badly wanted him to succeed to get them both a better life, then leaves him. Jimmy finally realizes that he must change if he is going to have any kind of a future. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi

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Directed by: Maria Giese

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  • SirPant
    December 30, 2009
    SirPant
    Hated it. There is no drama, no intensity, bad acting and little intrigue. I'm not a football fan but I used to think I understood why people were, now I?m not so sure.
  • DrLappos
    July 20, 2007
    DrLappos
    Watchable.....

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Dragan Antulov
November 19, 2002
Dragan Antulov, rec.arts.movies.reviews

Despite being stuffed with cliches, When Saturday Comes is emotionally rewarding experience, and not only for those viewers who are in love with the most popular sport in the world.

Derek Elley
March 26, 2009
Derek Elley, Variety

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Michael Szymanski
September 21, 2005
Michael Szymanski, International Press Academy

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