Watch: When Saturday Comes 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking brewery worker in the city of Sheffield, with an arrogant lack of respect for authority. His entire life has been orientated by football and he possesses the potential, but has never had the courage or discipline to make anything of it. Jimmy is spotted by Ken Jackson, whilst playing for his pub team. Ken is the manager of Hallam football club, a local non-league team. After continually playing brilliantly for Hallam, Jimmy gets offered a trial at Sheffield United. The evening before the trial he gets drunk, and wakes up feeling very rough. Consequently he fails to impress the Sheffield United manager. Jimmy then has to consider his future and his choices and if he has the self discipline to succeed!.
Plot: Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas – he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits…has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?
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Boys own wish fulfilment from the grim North of England.
When Saturday Comes is directed by Maria Giese who also adapts the screenplay from a story by James Daly. It stars Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Craig Kelly, Pete Postlethwaite, John McEnery and Melanie Hill. Music is by Anne Dudley and Joe Elliott of Def Leopard fame, and cinematography is by Grant Cameron and Gerry Fisher.Jimmy Muir (Bean) loves football, beer and women, his lads life is fun but certainly it could be better. Perhaps now that he is dating sexy wages clerk Annie Doherty (Lloyd) things are starting to settle in his life? More reason for optimism is that his football prowess has been noticed by Ken Jackson (Postlethwaite), the coach of Hallam FC, a man with friendly links to the manager of Jimmy’s beloved Sheffield United. The world, it seems, is Jimmy’s oyster, but problems at home, of the heart and socially, could scupper Jimmy’s last chance for glory and life fulfilment.
Completely fantastical rags to riches sports movie with a keen eye for working class based social realism, When Saturday Comes is one of the better football based movies out there. But it is in a genre splinter that’s hardly brimming with quality anyway. True enough to say it’s treading familiar turf, and the ending holds absolutely no surprises at all. While the last quarter of film badly rushes to get to the “punch the air moment”, to leave the picture with a whiff of emptiness. But it’s the off field aspects of the tale that strike the better chords.
Jimmy Muir is basically a good guy, he’s just caught in the vortex of a blokey lifestyle. Themes of a parental stymie and peer pressure add a bite to the screenplay, especially since the backdrop is one of a working class place that offers only the mine and the brewery for employment. Football is Jimmy’s beacon of hope, it keeps him sane, but can he be all he can be? As a character study, with Bean adding grit and emotional guts, Giese’s film is assuredly a winner, if only the football aspects weren’t so choppy and amateurish, then the film would be better thought of in the sports movie sphere.
Led by Bean, the performances are up to a good standard, even Lloyd, who manages to get away with an iffy Irish accent because her portrayal of Annie is so spunky and grounded. The photography suitably paints it as “Grim Up North”, and Dudley’s score is melodic and sits nicely with the various emotive turns in the narrative. There’s issues and goofs within, especially obvious to those who know about British football, like how old is Bean? Mel Sterland playing for Sheffield United? A home semi-final in the FA Cup? And there’s that annoying rush in the last quarter, where everything is condensed without thought to building up expectation. But it shoots and scores most of the time, particularly when away from the football pitch. 6.5/10
Top Movie for footballers who have dreamed of making it.
If you like football as much a me and you always dreamed of making it but never did, Then this is how i would of hoped it had happened, This movie covers everything you want in a rags to riches football movie the movie is a joy to watch. The performance by Shaun Bean was great (as usual) and Pete Postlewaite puts in a great performance again, the story just flows nicely and easy to watch. Its a movie i watched again and again when i was a kid and have it on DVD. Even now i watch it and something inside me wants to get on to a football pitch and get spotted just like Jimmy does here. To Jimmy life was just a game… Until the game became his life! 10/10
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 38 min (98 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, Sport
Director Maria Giese
Writer James Daly, Maria Giese
Actors Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd, Pete Postlethwaite
Country United Kingdom
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Laboratory Technicolor, London, UK
Film Length 2,756 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm