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Mike Bassett: England Manager is a 2001 satirical mockumentary comedy film directed by Steve Barron and starring Ricky Tomlinson, Amanda Redman, Bradley Walsh, Dean Lennox Kelly and Geoff Bell.
- £3.6 million
- Steve Barron
- Steve Barron, Neil Peplow
When the manager of the England football team, suffers a heart attack, the Football Association opts to replace him with Norwich FC manager Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson). Followed everywhere he goes by a documentary crew, Bassett gets off to a rocky start: the press are against him, and the country as a whole seems to have little hope for the ...
Rent Mike Bassett: England Manager on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. England's Football Association scrambles to find a replacement for the national team's manager after Phil...
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- Ricky Tomlinson
- Steve Barron
- Comedy
Sep 28, 2021 · Happy anniversary to cult classic football mockumentary Mike Bassett: England Manager which was released 20 years ago today. Good films about the beautiful game are rare, but even within the few heralded as such, Mike Bassett is too often overlooked.
With only three games left for England to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil, the team manager suffers a near-fatal heart attack, forcing football's top brass to turn in desperation to Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson, "The Royle Family"), a rough and rude minor league club manager with a lousy track record and low hopes for victory.
Sep 28, 2021 · 20 years ago today, Mike Bassett: England Manager was unleashed upon the unsuspecting British public. For a generation of football fans, this masterpiece is known line-by-line and formed an integral part of their love for the game, as Mike Bassett became the England manager an entire nation adored.
Summaries. The manager of England's national football unexpectedly succumbs to a heart attack, and suddenly the search is on for a replacement. Most people who seem qualified for the position have the good sense to turn it down, and so the responsibility falls to Mike Bassett, a scruffy and loud-mouthed lout whose claim to football fame is ...
