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The movie is a look at Brian Clough's 44-day reign as the coach of Leeds United. Previously managed by Clough's bitter rival Don Revie, the Leeds team has just completed its most successful period ever as a football club.

Genre:

Comedy, Drama, Biography

Actors:

Colm Meaney, Henry Goodman, David Roper, Jimmy Reddington, Oliver Stokes, Ryan Day, Michael Sheen, Mark Bazeley, Timothy Spall, Maurice Roëves, Stephen Graham, ...»

Director:

Tom Hooper

Country:

United Kingdom

Release:

2009

IMDb:

7.5

Quality:

Duration:

98 min

Detroit News

The Damned United is a thoughtful and entertaining study on the perils of ambition that has little to do with soccer and a lot to do with being human. Well-played.

October 30, 2009

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sbs.com.au

Morgan, Hooper and Sheen have crafted a moving, funny and loving tribute to the spirit of a man who effortlessly defined the spirit of the greatest sport ever.

August 09, 2010

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Film Comment Magazine

The Damned United eliminates the existential anguish and pain that propelled Peace's novel, and curtails its lowering style.

October 20, 2014

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Orlando Sentinel

The Damned United is a most entertaining study in obsession wrapped in a traditional sports movie.

November 11, 2009

Suite101.com

Michael Sheen has played vampires and werewolves, but works up his most insatiable bloodlust as Brian Clough in this sharply observed, superbly acted drama that realizes sports forms as nasty a symbiotic relationship with a nation's people as politics.

September 25, 2010

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Chicago Reader

[Michael Sheen] adds to his gallery of public figures (Tony Blair, David Frost) with a sharp performance here as the legendary UK soccer coach Brian Clough.

October 23, 2009

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Quickflix

If soccer is a Shakespearean drama, then The Damned United is Richard III.

October 27, 2010

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The New Republic

One of [its] primary pleasures...is that, in choosing a topic as narrow and parochial as the fate of an English soccer club, Morgan has relieved himself of any duty to persuade us that the events he describes are of world-historical import.

October 23, 2009

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Dallas Morning News

A finely constructed and fiercely entertaining soccer movie that deals more in pride and obsession than penalty kicks.

October 23, 2009

Concrete Playground

A provocative, darkly funny and particularly damning character study of hubris couched in idealism.

April 20, 2010

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Las Vegas CityLife

as foreign for American audiences as a story about one of Billy Martin's stints with the Yankees would be in the U.K.

January 31, 2011

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Two things that the British know that most Americans don't: Michael Sheen is the best actor in the English-speaking world; and soccer is the only football that matters.

November 24, 2009

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