Offside

Story: A lousy soccer team in the countryside are forced to win the last games of the season. In order to win they reinforce the team with a previous FA-cup champion, Duncan Miller.

This is another one of the Swedish "feelgood movies". It is a good movie, with a large portion of humor and includes some less successful characters that are pictured in a warm and nice way. (Typical Swedish!)

Actors are all doing a good job and Torkel Petersson (also in Kopps) is once again doing a really funny part as a Swedish "redneck". Worth noticing is that the female soccer player Tina Nordlund is doing a perfectly OK job. Sportsprofiles are seldom really successful on the white screen!

Feelgood movie? Yes, indeed. Another picture, there the Swedish countryside is viewed like a zoo, although sympathetic.

It's about the football team coming closer and closer to the final degradation. Then, it finds the solution: It's the English legend, the scorer in two FA Cup finals. But there's one problem when he arrives in Sweden. He's an alcoholic.

Jonas Karlsson, Torkel Petersson and Ingvar Hirdwall never do bad performances and without them, this would have been too much according to the manual. This is light entertainment for 1h 45 m, but nothing that goes to film history. Definitely not.

The movie itself is an ordinary Swedish "make you feel good"-movie but the scenes where they play football is outstanding and really funny. Even more funny if you have played football on that level yourself. Tina Nordlund was one of Sweden's best female football players a couple of years ago and she make her acting debut surprisingly good in this movie. I can really recommend this picture if you are a fan of football but if your not, go see Jalla-Jalla or Cops instead. It's also a movie about different family situations, alcoholism, shattered dreams and the courage to brake up something and start all over from scratch again. A perfect movie to see when youré hangover.