A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor -- the ex-footballer Eric Cantona.
05-27-2009
1h 56m
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Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Ken Loach
Production:
Diaphana Films, Film4 Productions, Wild Bunch, Film Four, Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, Les Films du Fleuve, Tornasol Media
Revenue:
$11,057,648
Key Crew
Screenplay:
Paul Laverty
Editor:
Jonathan Morris
Producer:
Gerardo Herrero
Director of Photography:
Barry Ackroyd
Production Design:
Fergus Clegg
Locations and Languages
Country:
BE; ES; FR; IT; GB
Filming:
BE; FR; IT; ES; GB
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Éric Cantona
Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born 24 May 1966) is a French actor and former French international footballer. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes and Leeds United before ending his professional footballing career at Manchester United, where he won four Premier League titles in five years and two League and FA Cup Doubles.
Cantona is often regarded as having played a key role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing force and he enjoys iconic status at the club. He wore the number 7 shirt at United, which was previously worn by George Best and Bryan Robson, and subsequently worn by David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo. Cantona is affectionately nicknamed by Manchester United fans "King Eric", and was voted as Manchester United's greatest ever player by Inside United magazine. Set against his footballing achievements was a poor disciplinary record throughout his career, including a conviction for assault on a fan in 1995.
Following his retirement from football, he took up a career in cinema and had a role in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, and the 2009 film Looking for Eric.
In 2010, he debuted as a stage actor in Face au paradis, a French play directed by his wife, Rachida Brakni.
On 19 January 2011, Cantona joined the revived New York Cosmos as Director of Soccer.
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John Henshaw (born 1951, Ancoats, Manchester) is a British actor famed for his roles as Ken the landlord in Early Doors, Wilf Bradshaw in Born and Bred and PC Roy Bramwell in The Cops.
Henshaw was born one of 12 children. He grew up in Ancoats, Manchester's "Little Italy" community. He was a refuse collector for ten years before deciding to become an actor at the age of 40.
His first big break in acting was as a minder to Robert Lindsay's character Michael Murray in the acclaimed Channel 4 series, G.B.H. Other TV credits include The Royle Family, The Visit, Life on Mars, whilst film credits include the Steve Coogan comedy The Parole Officer, the Bert Trautmann biopic The Keeper, and the Ken Loach films Looking For Eric and The Angels' Share. Henshaw is chairman of the 24:7 Theatre Festival, an annual festival of new writing for theatre based in Manchester.
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Gerard Kearns (born 4 October 1984) is an English actor. He has appeared in film and television. He played Ian Gallagher, one of the original characters in Channel 4's Shameless, for 6 years.
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Matthew McNulty (born Michael Anthony McNulty 14 December 1982 in Manchester) is an English actor of film and television.
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Mick Ferry is renowned as a fine purveyor of lugubrious surrealism and has quickly established himself as one of the most sought after comics on the British and International comedy circuit. One of the finest comperes around, Mick Ferry performs regularly at The Comedy Store in London and Manchester as well as headlining at comedy venues nationwide. He is also a regular member of the prestigious topical Cutting Edge Team at the Comedy Store.
On our TV screens, Mick has recently starred in BBC One`s Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow as well as Comedy Blue and The Comedy Store for Comedy Central. He made his big screen debut in 2009 in Ken Loach’s Looking For Eric – a hit feature film at the Cannes film festival where it was nominated for the prestigious Palm D’Or. A prolific writer, Mick was a writer on John Bishop’s Britain for BBC One and has also previously written for BBC3`s Smalltime.
Mick made his debut at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in 2009 performing The Comedy Final at the Gilded Balloon. He returned in 2010 with a brand new show The Missing Chippendale (Body Issues) to great critical acclaim.
Born 1945, actor, jazz drummer, stand up comedian and impersonator, Maxton Beesley first came to fame winning a series of Opportunity Knocks in 1972. From there he worked regularly on impressions show Who Do You Do, before moving into acting and voice over work. He is the father of actor, Max Beesley and is married to singer Christine Marlowe.
Born in Manchester in 1973, Ryan Pope is an actor perhaps best known for his role as Psycho Paul in all seven series of the cult BBC3 sitcom Ideal. His first break upon leaving acting school was to promote the Quadrophenia comeback tour by rock band The Who where his duties consisted of dressing as a mod and riding a Lambretta. After that he was employed as a catwalk model for the Prada fashion house and secured a role in the BBC series The Lakes. He has performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in both North America and the Far East and starred in Ben Wheatley's film A Field In England, Ken Loach's film Looking For Eric and Mike Leigh's Peterloo.
