19/01/09

Bend It Like Beckham

Main Characters:
Jesminder (Jess) Bhamra Parminder Nagra
Juliette (Jules) Paxton Keira Knightley
Joe Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Mr. Bhamra Anupam Kher
Mrs. Bhamra Shaheen Khan

Plot:
The plot is based around the Bhamra family. Mr Bhamra, Mrs Bhamra, Pinky and Jessminder (Jess). Whilst Pinky is preparing for marriage, her younger sister Jess is playing football much to her parents disapproval as they want her to go to university and become a lawyer. But one day whilst Jess is playing football with some boys, her talents are recognised by a proffessional footballer, Juliette (Jules) Paxton who tells her coach, Joe.
Jess accepts the offer to join Joe's team and is trained well but she begins to have feelings for Joe at the same time as Jules. The two girls become rivals when Jules see's Jess about to kiss Joe at a club. Things then take a turn for the worst as Jess is forced off the team despite Joe defending her.
But on the day of Pinky's wedding Jess is permitted by her father to play in the final. Bith she and Jules are again recognised but this time by an American scout who offers them places on the Santa Clara University soccer team. When Jess returns to the weddings afterpartyshe plans to tell her parents but instead a homosexual friend of her's, Tony forms a plan to tell her parnts that she can be engaged to him only if she gets to go to the university of her choosing. But Jess say's he's lying and tell's them the truth only to her mothers dismay. After a discussion Jess's father allows her to go. When she tells Joe he tries to kiss her because he is not the coach so he can date but jess refuses.
Then at the airport when Jess and Jules are saying their goodbyes Joe arrives to tell them that he was also offered a position as the coach for the men but instead he chooses to help the women's team. Joe has told his father about this which Jess finds promisng as she wanted him to recover the relation ship of his father. Joe and Jess then kiss but David and Victoria Beckham interupt. Jess say's she will try and tell her parents between now andwhen she returns home for Chrsitmas. In the end we see Pinky pregnant, admiring some baby clothes with her mother and Mr Bhamra tecaching Joe how to play cricket.