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The Bromley Boys

The Bromley Boys

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  • United Kingdom
  • 2018
  • · 97m

Director Steve M Kelly
Cast Martine McCutcheon, Alan Davies, Adam Deacon, Jamie Foreman, Brenock O'Connor, Tom Owen
Genre Comedy

A boy, a girl, and the worst football team in Britain. You can't choose who you're going to fall in love with.

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Film Threat by Alan Ng

The Bromley Boys is a light comedic drama, and you’ll have a good time if anything British is your cup of tea.

63

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

Young O’Connor has a pale, clumsy walking bean-pole awkwardness about him, and uses that ungainly appearance to good effect.

40

Variety by Guy Lodge

Steve Kelly’s lightweight film spins allegedly true events into the stuff of pure sitcom: affable enough, but so glibly inauthentic as to make “Bend It Like Beckham” look like cinéma vérité by comparison. It’s curious how the world’s most popular sport maintains such a thin roster of truly classic movies in its honor; that is unchanged here.

40

The Guardian by Cath Clarke

Weirdly for a film supposedly based on actual events – adapted from Dave Roberts’s football memoir about life as a fan of beleaguered Bromley FC during the 1969-70 season – a persistent whiff of fakeness hangs over it.