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English. Vietnamese. Footy Legends is a 2006 Australian film, directed and co-written by Khoa Do, produced by Megan McMurchy, starring Khoa's older brother and co-writer Anh Do, Angus Sampson, Emma Lung and Claudia Karvan. It was filmed in and around the Sydney western suburbs of Yagoona, Bankstown, Fairfield and Rookwood Necropolis.
Footy Legends: Directed by Khoa Do. With Anh Do, Angus Sampson, Lisa Saggers, Tom Simmons. An unemployed sports fan enters an amateur rugby league tournament where losing just isn't an option if he's to keep his family together.
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- Comedy, Drama, Sport
- Khoa Do
- 2006-08-03
Footy Legends was released in Australia on 3 August 2006. Plot. Luc Vu is a young Vietnamese Australian man who lives in the western Sydney suburb of Yagoona with an obsession about rugby league football. He is unemployed, having lost his job at a factory which closed down, and is also the sole carer of his 11-year-old sister Anne after their ...
This was the second film of Vietnamese–Australian director Khoa Do, after an acclaimed debut on the low budget drama The Finished People. Footy Legends was co-written with his brother, Anh Do, and Suzanne Do – Anh’s wife – and it’s as much about family as footy. The relationship between Luc and his 11-year-old sister gives the film ...
WATCH NOW. Set in Sydney's western suburbs, FOOTY LEGENDS tells the story of Luc Vu, a young Vietnamese-Australian man with an obsession about football. Out of work, and with welfare authorities threatening to take away his little sister, Luc reunites his old high school football team to win a competition that could change all their lives.
Jul 20, 2006 · It culminates with a grand final showdown against a team of NRL legends. Luc’s team will battle Bradley Clyde, Gary Larson, Cliff Lyons, Rod Wishart and Brett Kenny to decide the champion. Footy Legends is a film which doesn’t know what it wants to be. It moves back-and-forth between the genres of light-hearted comedy and emotional drama.
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Footy Legends is completely different - more mainstream, conventional, comedic and personal, but still driven by a real sense of compassion. Anh, his wife, Suzannne, and Khoa wrote the script ...
