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By Jarett B (233) on 06 Feb 2011

DId Brando just get a British accent…

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By Ben W (988) on 05 Nov 2010

One of those kitchen sink realism films and the first feature film from lindsay anderson…

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By Robert P (779) on 10 Oct 2010

An easy five stars. Right up with the best films on sports with great action of rugby league…

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By Daniel H (1,174) on 15 Sep 2010

Very powerful performance from Richard Harris playing a rugby star who tries to have a relationship with his widowed landlady Rachel Roberts…

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By Pansy P (14) on 07 Sep 2010

Richard Harris & Rachel Roberts finest hour . A Very gritty british ?Kitchen sink? drama…

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By Drew K (108) on 28 Aug 2010

Harris in this is awesome. Nobody knew who he was yet. I'd put it right up with Brando in Streetcar. Visceral, brutal, vulnerable and honest…

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By Ken S (1,985) on 15 May 2010

Although the movie opens with realistically shot rugby scenes it is not about the sport…

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By Kristen S (225) on 08 Apr 2010

Back when dumbledore was young, hot, and brando-ish…

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By Anne F (623) on 03 Mar 2010

Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life is a fantastic film primarily about frustrated desire (rugby player for his landlady, the director for…

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By Claraclogs M (3) on 25 Jan 2010

Crazy good, power packed British New Wave... splendid…

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By Matt C (2,668) on 31 Dec 2009

Brilliant and frustrating in equal measures…

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By Nia E (226) on 06 Dec 2009

Superb film! Richard Harris is blistering as the strangely sympathetic but utterly terrifying Frank…

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By Martin T (888) on 20 Oct 2009

A stark, bleak downer of a film, centered around a relationship obviously doomed from the start…

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By Peter M (1,292) on 18 Oct 2009

So fuckin real and hard hittin everybody should see this movie…

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By Miro N (4) on 15 Oct 2009

+ Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts - Sometimes went ahead little too slow…

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By Lorna D (9) on 21 Sep 2009

Iâ??ve only known Richard Harris as the veteran thespian and Iâ??ve never seen him as a young man until I saw this movie…

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By Wesley W (297) on 15 Sep 2009

Richard Harris plays a very interesting character. exciting watch…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for Times (UK) (2,458) on 04 Jun 2009

I can't think of a sport movie that is better photographed…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 04 Jun 2009

This Sporting Life shrewdly anticipates modern Britain: a dour, yet thrilling and exhilarating film…

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By Sukhdev Sandhu (247) for Daily Telegraph (UK) (2,495) on 04 Jun 2009

I'm tempted to see it as one of the strongest films of that period, every frame of which pulsates with drama, class confusion and erotic force…

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