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There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, also known as Jimmy Grimble, is a 2000 British sports comedy drama film directed by John Hay, starring Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Lewis McKenzie, Gina McKee, Ben Miller and Samia Ghadie.
Somehow, There's Only One Jimmy Grimble avoids self-consciousness as it leads us into the life of teenaged Jimmy (Lewis McKenzie), whose aspirations on the football field are as avid as they are unoriginal.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble. The title of this magic boots fairy tale comedy should be enough to pull a large British crowd - it's the age-old hypnotic chant sung to football idols by man and boy.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble. The Only One I Know. Written & Performed by The Charlatans. Feel the Panic. Performed by Freestylers. Contains a sample of "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back". Performed by Public Enemy. Blue Moon. Written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.
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Our synopses give away the plot in full, including surprise twists. Manchester, the present. A pupil at Greenock High School, Jimmy Grimble is the substitute on the school's football team, whose star player Gordon 'Gorgeous' Burley bullies him. Burley's father Ken promises that he will pay for the school's sports hall if the team, coached by disill...
"It's not working, is it?" says Ray Winstone towards the end of There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, his Manchester accent as authentic as a seven-pound note. As a critical summary of the film, his observation cannot be bettered. Jimmy Grimble is a film about football, but the central fault that dogs all football movies - actors don't have footballers' ...
Director
1. John Hay
Producers
1. Sarah Radclyffe 2. Jeremy Bolt 3. Alison Jackson
Screenplay
1. Simon Mayle 2. John Hay 3. Rik Carmichael
Aug 17, 2000 · There's Only One Jimmy Grimble is a replay of any number of inspirational coming-of-age sports sagas, albeit directed and performed with considerable zest and humour - enough, even, to...
BLUE MOON arranged for the movie THERE'S ONLY ONE JIMMY GRIMBLE with vocals by Ian McCulloch. Performed by Simon Boswell, Ian McCulloch and Alex James.
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