Laverty has a proven track record as a grim social realist; he is less assured as a comic fantasist; and he is absolutely hopeless when he tries to combine the two.
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06/12/09
Looking for Eric (2009)
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Reviews Counted:42
Fresh:37
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: Ken Loach’s latest is an uplifting, entertaining and amusing socio-drama featuring a match-winning performance from Eric Cantona.
Runtime: 1 hr 56 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Eric the postman is slipping through his own fingers... His wife has gone, his stepsons are out of control and the house was chaotic even before a cement mixer appeared in the front garden. Life... [More]
Starring: Steve Evets, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, John Henshaw
Director: Ken Loach
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Reviews for Looking for Eric
Looking For Eric is a great piece of feel-good British cinema.
05/14/09
If you are a fan of Cantona this could be your new favourite film.
06/12/09
Looking For Eric is a British film that lifts the spirits and might even bring a tear to the eye. Loach has scored a winner.
06/12/09
There’s no doubting that Looking for Eric is a lively piece of entertainment. It is always satisfying to see an arch-realist testing his certainties, even reaching from time to time, as Loach does here, into the joyfully fantastical.
06/12/09
Call it Looking For Box Office: king of gritty social realism Loach has made a wonderful feel-good hit.
06/12/09
One of Loach's most entertaining, uplifting films.
06/12/09
Looking For Eric is not so much a game of two halves as a chaotic kickabout, in which the rules of the game keep changing. It will score with some people but, I confess, I was looking for more.
06/12/09
Loach has created the first real grim-meets-feelgood film. It offers guilt-free fun and laughs for football and Loach fans alike.
06/16/09
The film’s triumph lies in the two relationships at its heart: the unlikely rapport between the two Erics, little and big, which is unusual, amusing and affecting.
05/18/09
A big-hearted, earthy and highly amusing comedy, it's compassionate, feelgood fare of the very first order.
06/12/09
Despite strong performances, this is, in the end, minor Loach.
09/23/09
As in many of Laverty's scripts, problems of overall tone and character development aren't solved by Loach's easygoing direction, though when it works, "Eric" has many incidental pleasures.
05/18/09
This is the nearest he will ever get to a feelgood movie, and may well become one of his most successful.
05/18/09
It would be unthinkable for Britain's Ken Loach to make a film without some social purpose, but at 72, he's made the funniest film of his long career.
09/24/09
It’s got all the heart and humour of a mainstream comedy-drama, with none of the tedious predictability.
06/12/09
Looking For Eric is his most entertaining film yet, a feelgood, footy-mad gem that takes spectators through several rounds of anguish to a cheer-inducing finale of hope and glory.
06/12/09
Loach crams a few films into this unique title and manages to pull them into one crowd-pleaser by the end.
05/18/09
Looking for Eric is scathing about the erosion of communal values and the violent, selfish mess of inner-city life.
05/18/09
With less of the grit but still plenty of the earthy humour Loach is renowned for, this walks the indie/ commercial line with assurance.
06/12/09
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