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Blackball

Name: Blackball
Genre: Comedia
Released: 2003-05-18
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Paul Kaye, Johnny Vegas, James Cromwell, Bernard Cribbins, Alice Evans

R 2003 1 h 36 min

Comedy

52%

Audience score57 votes on TMDB

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“At Last, A Sportsman The British Can Be Proud Of”

Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.

Screenplay: Tim Firth
Director: Mel Smith
Music: Stephen Warbeck
Status: Released
Release date: 18/05/2003
Original language: English
Box office: US$ 0 M