Chicago – In our latest comedy/sports edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of “Looking for Eric”! It’s a soccer comedy that was an official selection at 2009’s Cannes Film Festival and our very own Chicago International Film Festival.
The film from director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty features Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, Stefan Gumbs, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Cole Williams, Dylan Williams, Matthew McNulty and Laura Ainsworth.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Looking for Eric” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Looking for Eric”.
Image credit: IFC Films
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The film from director Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty features Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop, Gerard Kearns, Stefan Gumbs, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Cole Williams, Dylan Williams, Matthew McNulty and Laura Ainsworth.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “Looking for Eric” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “Looking for Eric”.
Image credit: IFC Films
Here is...
- 5/18/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
At first, "Looking for Eric" seems like a typical Ken Loach picture, proletarian through and through. We meet Eric Bishop (curly-mopped, thickly accented newcomer Steve Evets) literally going in circles, driving the wrong way on a roundabout and getting into an accident. Stumbling home from the hospital, he takes time to trade insults with his two teenage stepsons, Ryan (Gerard Kearns) and Jess (Stefan Gumbs). Pointed dialogue reveals that he still mourns the absence of his beloved first wife, Lily (Stephanie Bishop), who left him long ago. At the post office where he works as a mail sorter, his colleagues, led by a fellow dubbed Meatballs (John Henshaw), take turns trying to cheer Eric up by telling him jokes. Only the life-sized poster of Cantona on Eric's bedroom wall seems willing to lend the poor bloke a sympathetic ear. Then one day, Cantona himself is standing there, in the flesh,...
- 5/10/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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