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.
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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
A big-hearted, earthy and highly amusing comedy, it's compassionate, feelgood fare of the very first order.
06/12/09
The thoroughly charming, amusing and insightful Looking For Eric is a complete pleasure... a Ken Loach film brimming with wit and wisdom, interspersed with classic archive moments of Cantona magic.
06/12/09
Play It Again, Eric... Ken Loach perfectly captures the feeling of football and the need for hope. Touching and hilarious — a blinder.
06/12/09
Something conjured from the high, fey ethers of wish-fulfilment whimsy.
06/12/09
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.
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
An enjoyable, well directed drama with strong performances from a superb cast. It's also quite possibly Ken Loach's most upbeat movie to date.
06/12/09
An unusually warm, funny and slightly surreal drama about a man rediscovering himself. Even a rather overwrought plot can't undermine the engaging characters and insightful observations.
06/12/09
Like all great football films, Looking For Eric isn't really about football. Instead, it uses the Beautiful Game as a way to tell a beautiful story, about loyalty, trust, and friendship.
06/12/09
If you are a fan of Cantona this could be your new favourite film.
06/12/09
Beneath the raw surfaces of this movie there's a sentimentalism that doesn't strike true. Do adult mates put themselves out the way they do here?
06/11/09
This is endearing, crowd-pleasing fare.
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
This is the nearest he will ever get to a feelgood movie, and may well become one of his most successful.
05/18/09
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" should connect with moviegoers who enjoy clever comic writing with a touch of fantasy plus fans of any sport that has legendary heroes. It looks set to be Loach's biggest mainstream hit.
05/18/09
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
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
Looking For Eric isn't a Loach masterpiece, but it's great fun and is set fair to be his first commercial smash since Kes. No one would begrudge him a well-earned box-office hit from such an amiable film.
05/18/09
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