When Saturday Comes
When Saturday Comes
| 01 March 1996 (USA)
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Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?

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Best movie ever!

Limerculer

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

SpunkySelfTwitter

It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

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Ezmae Chang

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

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richarda-rourke

If you love football a must see. Sean Bean plays his role perfectly i loved this film from beginning to end. The story may be a little predictable however it captures the feel and grit of the City of Sheffield. The film follows "Jimmy" from being an arrogant hard drinking brewery worker through the trials that are set to shape his future one way or another. I think it is an honest portrayal of a working class "Hero".I would recommend it to everyone you don't have to be a Sheffield United fan to love this film (it may help though). Emily Lloyd plays her character to perfection as well.Pete Postlethwaite brings his gravitas to the film. Also look out for the Sheffield United Legend Tony Currie who makes a cameo along with some other local footballing heroes most notably Mel Sterland ex- Sheffield Wednesday player.

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dgfranklin

Excellent film, I loved it. Great football action and cool scenes. I like the way Sean Bean has to fight hard to get ahead. The football action is very realistic. The mining scene was powerful. If you like a good stripper scene, this film is for you. The acting was great, Bean and Postlethwaite are at their best and the director really captures the gritty feel of Northern England.

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Theo Robertson

Eeeee by gum as they say in Yorkshire times are tough . On leaving school lads have a choice of either working down the pits or in factories while girls have a choice of marrying a lad who works either down the pit face or in a factory . Further education doesn`t seem to be an option in Yorkshire even though Sheffield does indeed have an university , I should know because I`ve been there . Oh didn`t all the coal mines close in Yorkshire sometime in the late 1980s ? In other words we`ve got a kitchen sink drama full of stereotypes and anachronisms That said I did like WHEN SATURDAY COMES just because it`s a gritty drama well acted by its cast . Despite being too old for his role by about ten years Sean Bean plays his role very well especially if you only know him as a baddie from films like GOLDENEYE and PATRIOT GAMES . Emily Lloyd is also good and you really do feel for the characters in this film unlike the overrated comedy drama THE FULL MONTY which was also set in Sheffield

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lawrence-14

WHEN SATURDAY COMES is a little, British football flick but brilliant. Quite similar to FEVER PITCH but ten times more better. It provides booze, sex and excitement on the pitch. You can't get fed up this the first time you watch it. Brilliant and FULL MONTY style, this film was so exciting and Sean Bean gives a good performance. It was so good that my popcorn finished a quarter of the way through it, that's how excited i was even though i had a mega-deluxe bag. Blood rushed was rushing all over to different parts of my body. All that i could think of was football, sex, booze, football, sex, booze. WSC. What pardon?. WSC. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1. It is more exciting than watching boring, boring Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Brazil. Ah, what's wrong?....your hot dog finished?, tomato ketchup spilt down your jumper. WSC is brilliant.

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