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 Mike Bassett: England Manager 

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 Mike Bassett: England Manager 
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Mike Bassett: England Manager is a 2001 satirical comedy film directed by Steve Barron, following the fortunes of the manager of Division One football (English football's second tier) club Norwich City, Mike Bassett, who having led his side to the 'Mr Clutch Cup', is appointed England manager. It received mixed reviews.

The film takes the form of a fly-on-the-wall fictional documentary (mockumentary) following Bassett (played by Ricky Tomlinson) as he starts his international management career. Martin Bashir, well known as a journalist and presenter in real life, plays the interviewer and provides the voice-over, and the film features cameo appearances from Pelé and Ronaldo. The film satirises many targets, such as the mysterious figures who run the Football Association, the stereotypical view of an old-fashioned manager, and the tabloid press's unfailing habit of building the England team up so they can knock them down hard.

The world cup being played is referred to in the film as 'World Cup XVII'; the 17th World Cup was the tournament played in 2002.

The film was followed by a TV series, Mike Bassett: Manager in 2005.

And in 2014 a second film Mike Bassett: Interim Manager is trying to get £250,000 funding on the website Kickstarter.


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A hilarious film, Tomlinson nails the role as Mike Bassett and the script is just clever in how it stay down to earth in realism on one end and drops the right dose of satire on football conventions on the other. The locker room rant is perhaps the most obvious example of laughter, mainly because the punchline of it having no effect on the game's outcome is just brilliant, but my personally favorite bit is the press conference about the Benson & Hedges selection. There is just a lot of comedy gold in this, nice they got Pele in it as well and he's just two for two in being in good films about football, with the other being Escape to Victory. Will try to check out the Mike Bassett tv show if I can find it.

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