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Guys & Balls(Männer wie wir)

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Germany · 2004
Rated R · 1h 46m
Director Sherry Hormann
Starring Maximilian Brückner, Dietmar Bär, Saskia Vester, David Rott
Genre Comedy, Romance

After their most recent loss, a soccer team discovers its goalie, Ecki, is gay and casts him out. In retaliation, Ecki travels to the city of Dortmund to recruit an all-gay soccer team to return and prove to his town and his former soccer mates who the best men are.

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The New York Times by

The climactic game provides an opportunity for some of the most sustained - and literal - gay bashing in movie history, even if the outcome is no more surprising than that of any other underdog comedy.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

A by-the-numbers ensemble dramedy that hits every underdog and gay-fish-out-of-water cliche on the nose.

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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

There are moments of genuine emotion between the wacky tryouts and the nail-biter finale, and it seems churlish to complain. But there's little room for laziness around superior players like "Shaolin Soccer" and "Bend It Like Beckham."

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The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

Golhardt's screenplay has enough quirkily charming moments to compensate for its plethora of stereotypical characters and cliched situations, and director Sherry Hormann provides a light enough touch to make the proceedings palatable, if not quite enjoyable.

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TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

If there's a gay cliche who doesn't flounce through this feel-good German comedy, he must have been out of town when the casting call went out, but its fundamental good nature is tough to resist.

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