Review: 'Damned United'
Having the skill to bring authentic stories to forceful and persuasive dramatic life is a gift not all writers have, but no one has it more than Britain's Peter Morgan. Best known for having written "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon," Morgan does it again in his potent script for "The Damned United."...
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- News Source: Epoch Times | about 1 month agoClough clashed with both his players and management, resulting in a brief but humiliating tenure. Yet throughout it all, Clough always has a sound bite ready in Tom Hooper’s “The Damn United.” A former player whose career was cut short by...
- News Source: The New York Times | about 1 month agoIn any case, “The Damned United” is the rare sports movie that deals with — indeed positively relishes — humiliation and disappointment. Its real-life protagonist, the soccer coach Brian Clough (who died in 2004), was, over his long career, a...
- News Source: USA Today | about 1 month agoThere are more clashing personalities than competition on the field in The Damned United . More biopic than sports movie, it features only a few minutes of what most of the world calls football (and Americans call soccer) and a lot more about...
- News Source: Los Angeles Times | about 1 month agoHaving the skill to bring authentic stories to forceful and persuasive dramatic life is a gift not all writers have, but no one has it more than Britain's Peter Morgan. Best known for having written "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon," Morgan does it again...
- News Source: USA Today | about 1 month agoUnlike larger-than-life stars who rarely seem to portray anyone but themselves, this slightly built Welshman relishes the opportunity to hide behind the guise of the famous and infamous. After wowing Broadway with his Mozart in a 1999 revival of...
- News Source: Seattle Times | about 1 month agoMichael Sheen never felt he was playing second fiddle as British leader Tony Blair or TV interviewer David Frost. It was simply inevitable that his characters would take a back seat to the huge personalities they were up against: Elizabeth II in "The...
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- Blog Source: www.sfexaminer.comSheen prefers characters who are more of a cipher, the 40-year-old actor said in an interview at September's Toronto International Film Festival, where his soccer drama "The Damned United" played in advance of its theatrical release ...
- Blog Source: sgfsoccer.comThe Damned United is being released in the U.S. in October, and tells the story of legendary manager Brian Clough's doomed 44-day reign as manager of Leeds United. The film was written by Peter Morgan and stars Michael Sheen (both were ...
- Blog Source: hollywoodandfine.comThe film, written by Peter Morgan (“The Queen,” “Frost/Nixon”), focuses on an explosive moment in Clough's storied career, when his blend of talent, vaulting ambition and hubris led to a crash-and-burn encounter that is fascinating in ...
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comWhen is a sports movie not a sports movie? When it's Tom Hooper's terrific The Damned United, yet another feather in actor Michael Sheen's cap. ... Sheen plays Brian Clough, a British legend as a football (read: soccer) coach, all but unknown in the
- Blog Source: www.firsttouchonline.comDavid Peace's controversial 'The Damned United', which gives a fictionalized account of Clough's turbulent 44-day reign at Leeds United, has now been turned into a film starring Oscar-nominated actor Michael Sheen. First Touch sat down with Sheen to
- Blog Source: www.altweeklies.com'The Damned United' is One Damned Entertaining Movie In his portrayal of famed British soccer team manager Brian Clough, Michael Sheen solidifies his status as this generation's Laurence Olivier.
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