The Beautiful Game (2024) on Netflix
Vinny is living in his car. Mal invites him to the squad of homeless footballers he is taking to Rome for the Homeless World Cup, but Vinny says he does not qualify.
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Plot summary
Mal, a former youth trainer, interrupts a youth session to step in when an angry parent goes after Vinny. Mal brings Vinny to meet the group he is preparing for a yearly tournament in Rome, and Vinny is not impressed. When Vinny stays for a meal, he understands the competition is the Homeless World Cup, tells Mal he does not qualify, and walks off. Mal trails him to the car Vinny has been living in, and, seeing that Vinny will not admit his situation, leaves his number.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Beautiful Game (2024)
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- Before Bill Nighy and Micheal Ward were confirmed as the leads in August 2021, a previous version of Frank Cottrell-Boyce's script had been set up at Fox Searchlight Pictures, with Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson attached.
- Writer Frank Cottrell-Boyce met many participants in the Homeless World Cup and developed the film's characters from their stories, and the project, originally set to shoot in 2012, was for him an eleven year undertaking.
- The film used extras who had played in real Homeless World Cup tournaments and are now no longer homeless, a symmetry Bill Nighy described to the BBC as "a very sweet bit of symmetry."
