Mike Bassett: England Manager
2001, 86 minutes, Rated M
One man...one goal...one brain cell.
With only three games left for England to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil, disaster strikes. The manager suffers a near fatal heart attack and, oddly enough, nobody seems to want to take his place. So Football's top brass turn to Mike Bassett, manager of a very minor league club.
Bassett is an old school manager who thinks tactics are small white mints and who writes his team on the back of a cigarette packet, leading to the surprise inclusion of two players...Benson & Hedges, in one of his squads.
Once in charge, Bassett has an immediate and enduring losing streak, but England scrape through to the final thanks to a fluke result elsewhere.
In South America, things go from bad to worse. The results are pathetic, the team captain is arrested and Mike's star player has a fling with a beautiful woman who turns out to be a man. The press are baying for Bassett's blood, the fans despise him, his family is threatening desertion and his fate as the most hated Englishman since Margaret Thatcher seems sealed.
- Director:
- Steve Barron [6],
- Starring:
- Philip Jackson [34], Ulrich Thomsen [9], Ricky Tomlinson [8], Amanda Redman [26], Robbie Gee [3], Bradley Walsh [1], Dean Lennox [1], Phill Jupitus [1], Martin Bashir [1], Robert Putt [1],
- Screen Formats:
- Widescreen
- Language and Sound:
- English 5.1 Dolby Digital
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