DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Bend it like Beckham (Motion picture)

Bend it like Beckham / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; Kintop Pictures presents in association with the Film Council and FilmFoerderung Hamburg ; a Kintop Pictures/Bend It Films/ROC Media/Road Movies co-production ; directed by Gurinder Chadha ; produced by Deepak Nayar, Gurinder Chadha ; written by Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges

videodisc

Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003]

1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital video

DVD

video file DVD

Eighteen year-old Jesminder's parents want her to be a nice, conventional Indian girl. But she just wants to play soccer like her hero, David Beckham. For Jess, that means kicking a ball around the local park with the lads until she's spotted by Jules, who invites her to join the local women's team.

MPAA rating: PG-13; for language and some sexual situations.

Women, East Indian -- England -- Drama.

Women -- England -- Drama.

Women soccer players -- England -- Drama.

East Indians -- Cultural assimilation -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Soccer -- England -- Drama.

Chadha, Gurinder, film director, screenwriter, film producer.

Nayar, Deepak, film producer.

Bindra, Guljit, screenwriter.

Berges, Paul Mayeda, screenwriter.

Nagra, Parminder, 1975-

Knightley, Keira, 1985-

Rhys-Meyers, Jonathan, 1977-

Kher, Anupam, 1955-

Panjabi, Archie.

Lewis, Shaznay.

Harper, Frank, 1962-

Stevenson, Juliet.

Lin, Liangzhong.

Krish, Justin.

Pruess, Craig.

Holes, Ralph.

Ellis, Nick.

Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Kintop Pictures (Firm)

Film Council (Great Britain)

Filmförderung Hamburg (Firm)

Bend It Films.

ROC Media.

Road Movies Filmproduktion.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.

Special features: Director/co-writer commentary; 10 deleted scenes; "making of" featurette; "Who wants to cook Aloo gobi" cooking featurette; music video with outtakes; trailers; Aloo gobi recipe.

Director of photography, Jong Lin ; editor, Justin Krish ; original music, Craig Pruess ; costume designer, Ralph Holes ; production designer, Nick Ellis.

Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, anamorphic widescreen; Dolby 5.1 surround or Dolby surround sound.

In English, dubbed French, or dubbed Spanish, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English.

Special features: Anamorphic widescreen -- Director and co-writer commentary -- 10 deleted/extended scenes -- "Who wants to cook Aloo Gobi?" hosted by the director and "The Aunties" -- "The making of Bend It Like Beckham" featurette -- Music video and outtakes -- Aloo Gobi recipe -- International theatrical trailers -- Language: English 5.1 Dolby surround ; Spanish Dolby surround ; French 5.1 Dolby surround -- Subtitles: English, Spanish.

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