Offside (2006)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Peter	Björn Bengtsson
Fredrik	Mats Blomgren
Duncan Miller	Brendan Coyle	½
Sara	Maria Hazell
Boston	Ingvar Hirdwall	½
Tommy	Torkel Petersson	½

Review

I guess we all must admit that this story is about as mature and probable as every teenage footballer's fantasy, but we could care less about that when watching a film with as much uncorrupted feelgood and spirit as Mårten Klingberg's Offside. The idea is taken from the realm of such publications as Buster and Boing with which every Scandinavian football fanatic has grown up. What is most interesting about Klingberg's approach, is how he takes a look at how life has unfolded for one of those young, Buster-reading kids. The absolutely pivotal position football has in these people's lives - even if they're a down-and-out 6th division player without a job - or perhaps because of that. Offside alternates between lightweight, pinpointed humour and satire and quite sincere, insightful meditations on different slices of life. Conventional dramaturgy with a fresh angle, and with some wonderfully hilarious dialogue.