Kick It Like Sara
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kick It Like Sara |
| Original title | Her best move |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norm Hunter |
| script | Norm Hunter Tony Vidal |
| production | Norm Hunter |
| music | Didier Rachou |
| camera | Paul Ryan |
| cut | Mitchel Stanley |
| occupation | |
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Her Best Move is an American romantic comedy by Norm Hunter from the year 2007 .
action
Sara is 15 years old and the star of her soccer team. She is also coached by her football-crazy father, who is very keen that Sara becomes the youngest player of all time on the US women's national team. Her mother, however, has great doubts whether this is the right thing for her daughter's development. However, Sara gets a rejection from the football association, with the note that she is not quite ready. In addition, in a conversation with her best friend Tutti, she notices that there is still a life besides soccer and takes part in the training of the dance group of her high school.
Sara meets her classmate and amateur photographer Josh, with whom she falls in love. In the meantime, the national team's goal scorer has injured herself. The football association announced that the top scorer of the national championship will be appointed to the team. Her greatest competitor for this vacancy is her teammate Regina.
Josh and Sara get closer and become a couple. Regina intrigues, however, so Josh ends the relationship again. Sara has great doubts whether her previous life path is right and shifts her priorities more and more. The dream of the national team is fading into the background. At the same time, her father is also slowly changing his attitude because he realizes that his daughter is not happy.
Regina apologizes to Sara for her intrigue and she forgives her. In the final of the national championship, Sara runs alone towards the goal seconds before the end and could score the goal herself. However, she plays the ball to Regina, who thus scores the winning goal and moves up into the national team.
In the end, Sara tells her parents that the national team is still her big dream, but that it is still too early for her. Then she makes her way to Josh and makes up with him.
criticism
“In 2002, British director Gurinder Chadha made Kick it like Beckham, a charming and cheeky teenage film with a star cast. Back then, a well-fed Keira Knightley was playing a passionate teenage footballer. Incidentally, the comedy was also about the playful representation of cultural differences. The US comedy Kick it like Sara deals with a similar topic around four years later. Again it is about a teenage girl who has to choose between her great passion, football, her great love and her sense of responsibility towards her parents. However, one has to credit the film [sic] that the original title Her Best Move is in no way reminiscent of the English model. This comedy does not have a prominent cast. Only Scott Patterson pushes the cast a bit. He became known to a broad US and European audience as the grim but lovable cafe owner Luke in the US series Gilmore Girls . "
Web links
- Her Best Move in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Kick It Like Sara in the online movie database