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Eleven Men Out
starring: Sigurdur Skúlason, Jon Alti Jonasson, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Lilja Nótt, Arnmundur Ernst

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
EAN: 0858423001322
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Here
Manufacturer: Here
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Here
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 04, 2008
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: Here
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Sales Rank: 45474
MPN: GEPDLIB00132D

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Description:
The star player of Iceland’s top soccer team causes controversy when he admits to being gay to his teammates. He soon finds himself ostracized by his team and decides to call it quits to join a small amateur league made up of gay men trying to play football in a straight, macho world of sports.

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Realistic but very feel good
This seems to be a film that people either love or hate, judging by some of the reviews here. I fell for the "feel" of the movie, it's sometimes slow but always has a gentle and feel good rhythm to it. I thought most of the situations were handled realistically, situations regarding the main characters family and teenage son. I enjoyed the fact that although this film is very much about football, you don't actually see any footage of the game itself. The film centers more on the background of sports and what it is like to "come out" as a pro-footballer. The soundtrack of the film is also excellent, a throwback to 80's glam metal. This is one of the best foreign language films I've seen in a long time.

Rating:

- Somewhat pleasant, but lacks substance to be really good.
With the Olympic Games grabbing their share of the headlines these days, let's look at a film about an athlete "coming out" in another country ... Iceland.

"Eleven Men Out" (Iceland, 2005) is about a soccer star on one of the best amateur teams in that country, who abruptly decides to "come out" as gay, much to the surprise and complete shock of his teammates, father (who is apparently the head coach of the team), mother, siblings, ex-wife and teenage son. It doesn't go well, with his son ashamed of him, his ex-wife using it as an excuse to relapse with an alcohol problem, and the team trustees benching him until they eventually decide he can no longer play there. A friend who coaches a lesser-known (and apparently much more diverse, with several openly gay members) team invites ... Read More

Rating:

- Strangely mean-spirited & dull
This is not a "feisty comedy" a "hilarious comedy" or a comedy at all. It's probably not a film of any sort. It's just filmstock.

So let's not delude ourselves -- as a movie that typifies a sub-genre of gay cinema, a combination of 'coming-out' and 'sport,' "Eleven Men Out" offers nothing distinctive or titillating or rewarding for its target audience, presumably gay males.

If this movie were simply a rehash of the cliches that have come to dominate much of imported gay European cinema, the movie might have been tolerable. Some sweaty guys, some jokes about balls, some family acceptance scenes, some investigative sex, a club scene, a break-up, etc. But "Eleven Men Out" fails to capture even one or two of these marketable tropes. What the film does have are strangely mean ... Read More

Rating:

- a disapointment
The story is, if you can call it that, that a prominent icelandic soccer player comes out after a match so that he can be on the front page of a magasine. After that he gets kicked out of his club, finds a gay team (you don't see them play), they drive around to some small villages to play and ends up playing against his old team mates, and then the movies ends...oh yah you find out that he's been married, has an estranged son and he plays boyfriends with one of his gay team mate.

Boring, boring, boring. I am sorry i wasted money on the film.

Rating:

- having a blast
Shows that prejudices and hard headed people are all over the world as these guys from Iceland must deal with the gay bashing while trying to compete as a gay soccer team. It all starts with the star of a popular soccer team announcing to the press after a game that he's gay. This doesnt go over well with most of the folks on his team his dad included being that he's the coach of the team.

He talks to him like its a sickness or a mental illness that can be "cured" when that drama stop for real. He's not hearing any of it at all and he's also dealing with a way drunk and so out of it ex-wife. He also has a son to look out for as well and he isnt too keen on him putting his business out for the world to see.

But throughout the movie the gain more favor with other folks ... Read More

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