The Match

The Match

5.8/ 10

TMDB Rating

14

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1999

Release Year

95 min

Runtime

Comedy

Romance

Overview

Romantic comedy set against the story of a grudge football match between two pubs. The prize for the winner of the centenary match is the the closure of their opponent's bar. The Match was mainly filmed around Straiton in Ayrshire.

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Keywords

sports

scotland

football (soccer)

british pub

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Cast

Max Beesley

Max Beesley

Wullie Smith

Isla Blair

Isla Blair

Sheila Bailey

James Cosmo

James Cosmo

Billy Bailey

Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

Gorgeous Gus

Laura Fraser

Laura Fraser

Rosemary Bailey

Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Big Tam

David Hayman

David Hayman

Scrapper

Tom Sizemore

Tom Sizemore

Buffalo

Neil Morrissey

Neil Morrissey

Piss Off

David O'Hara

David O'Hara

Mechanic

Reviews(1)

6.0avg rating

Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

@narrator56

May 2, 2021

6

6/10

This movie can be harmless fun as long as you can lower your expectations more than a little. The entire premise of the film seems more than a little dubious to me. Why would owners of two pubs 100 years before make a bet based on one of them winning 99 matches in a row? Was one of the teams so bad …

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