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The Damned United
2009
The chameleon-like Michael Sheen - an actor that has already portrayed Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and Sir David Frost in FROST/NIXON - stars as Brian Clough: the short-lived manager of Leeds United in the 1970s. Read more
| Starring | Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent |
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| Director | Tom Hooper |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Sport |
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The Damned United
The chameleon-like Michael Sheen - an actor that has already portrayed Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and Sir David Frost in FROST/NIXON - stars as Brian Clough: the short-lived manager of Leeds United in the 1970s.
| Starring | Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Jim Broadbent, Joseph Dempsie, Maurice Roeves, Henry Goodman, Stephen Graham, Brian McCardie, Peter McDonald |
|---|---|
| Director | Tom Hooper |
| Studio | Sony Pictures |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 38 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | UK top 50 weekly chart |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Sport |
| Language | English, English Audio Description |
| Released | DVD: 31 Aug 2009 Blu-ray: 31 Aug 2009 Production year: 2009 |
| Format | DVD |
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American soccer fansall four of youdont hate me for saying so, but The Damned United has very little... read more on Time Out
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46 out of 46 people found this review helpful
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Entertainment 2 - 1 Accuracy
This is not really a football film. It is a film about egos, self-destruction and love. That said, I'm not sure a viewer would be quite as quickly drawn in to it without at least some idea of who Brian Clough and Don Revie were (even though the film does do its best to explain this and give a good idea of what it meant for Brian Clough to be appointed Leeds United manager in 1974 after Don Revie's departure).
The positives are: a truly terrific performance by Michael Sheen (not simply because he does seem to be Brain Clough, but because of the humour, warmth and internal conflicts he shows within the man); a really strong supporting cast; and an amusing script.
The negatives have to be that I left the cinema still feeling that I did not really understand what caused the self-destructive demons with Brian Clough, and that I had been shown a decent tale at the expense of great dollops of truth or detail. -
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46 out of 46 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
Entertainment 2 - 1 Accuracy
This is not really a football film. It is a film about egos, self-destruction and love. That said, I'm not sure a viewer would be quite as quickly drawn in to it without at least some idea of who Brian Clough and Don Revie were (even though the film does do its best to explain this and give a good idea of what it meant for Brian Clough to be appointed Leeds United manager in 1974 after Don Revie's departure).
The positives are: a truly terrific performance by Michael Sheen (not simply because he does seem to be Brain Clough, but because of the humour, warmth and internal conflicts he shows within the man); a really strong supporting cast; and an amusing script.
The negatives have to be that I left the cinema still feeling that I did not really understand what caused the self-destructive demons with Brian Clough, and that I had been shown a decent tale at the expense of great dollops of truth or detail. -
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Sheen urges Clough family to watch film
- 20 Mar 2009
Actor Michael Sheen is pleading with the family of English soccer legend Brian Clough to watch upcoming movie The Damned United - insisting they will be pleased with his portrayal of the late star. Sheen plays Clough in the film, which is based on a book chronicling his 44 days spent managing soccer team Leeds United in 1974 before he was sacked. Clough's family plans to boycott the movie in protest at the way he was portrayed in the novel - but Sheen is adamant the big-screen version adopts a Read more
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The chameleon-like Michael Sheen - an actor that has already portrayed Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and Sir David Frost in FROST/NIXON - stars as Brian Clough: the short-lived manager of Leeds United in the 1970s....
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The Damned United
The chameleon-like Michael Sheen - an actor that has already portrayed Tony Blair in THE QUEEN and Sir David Frost in FROST/NIXON - stars as Brian Clough: the short-lived manager of Leeds United in the 1970s....
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