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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (2000)

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18:05-20:00 Sun 1st Feb 2009 115m
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In this feel-good fantasy football yarn, film first-timer Lewis McKenzie plays Manchester teen Jimmy, a budding George Best, but only in the privacy of practice. Play him in a game and he's tackled by lack of confidence. Then an old crone gives him a pair of "magic" football boots and Jimmy is soon inspiring his team to the finals of the inter-school championships. With big guns Robert Carlyle (as his sports teacher) and Ray Winstone (as an ardent suitor in a subplot involving Jimmy's single mum), it has moments that are corny, clunky and crass, but it's still hard to dislike.