Again and again on Saturdays

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Movie
German title Again and again on Saturdays
Original title When Saturday Comes
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Maria Giese
script James Daly ,
Maria Giese
production James Daly,
Christopher Lambert ,
Meir Teper
music Anne Dudley ,
Joe Elliott
camera Grant Cameron ,
Gerry Fisher
cut George Akers
occupation

When Saturday ( When Saturday Comes ) is a film drama by the US director Maria Giese from the year 1996 , which in Sheffield , Great Britain plays of the 1990s. The film was shot in Sheffield and Rotherham from January 15 to February 17, 1995.

action

The young men from the working-class district of Sheffield, an industrial city in northern England , play on the local soccer field every Saturday . After the game, everyone goes to the club, where they go through the game again with plenty of beer or watch the local first division team play on the television.

Jimmy Muir is a hard-drinking worker at a local brewery where he started working at school when he was sixteen. He is in his late twenties, disrespectful to everything and everyone, arrogant and extremely convinced of himself and, like his sister Mary and his younger brother Russel, who works in a mine, still lives at home with his parents in one of the typical brick row houses. He shares a room with Russell. His relationship with his father, an unreliable drinker and gambler, is not exactly good. Football collectibles are lying and hanging around everywhere, as football rules the life of boys. The younger brother even collects old football programs that his father secretly sold one day to satisfy his addiction. Her hobby football is her ray of hope in her uneventful everyday life, from which apparently no escape is possible. The career options seem to be largely limited to brewery or miners.

When the handsome Jimmy, who is generally very popular with women, meets Annie Doherty, who is new to the brewery and starts in payroll , he goes out with her and conquers her, but at heart he has no intention of to change even the slightest change in oneself or one's life.

The local talent scout Ken Jackson is present at one of the Saturday football games with his pub team and is specifically watching Jimmy. He is so taken with his game that he made an audition for him at Sheffield United possible. At the first training session, Jimmy is well received, even though, according to the coach there, he is not a team player, but rather a single player. An appointment will be made again for the coming Saturday at eleven o'clock where he will train with the team again and where the buyer from Sheffield will also examine him and decide on a purchase.

On the previous Friday he only “just to be on the safe side” to meet his girlfriend Annie to spend the evening alone with her and so as not to be tempted to join his friends' binge drinking . It then occurs to him that his best friend's birthday is that day (better said, his nice father reminds him with relish), but he still keeps the appointment with Annie, who wants to visit an apartment with him. He himself does not feel very comfortable with the thought of moving in together and being too close. During the inspection she “confesses” to him that she is expecting a child from him. At first he says she can't help it, but then runs away and goes to his local pub, where all his friends are already celebrating. For a short time he tries to stick with Coke , but is weak enough to be changed by light teasing , one round would be enough . His younger brother tries in vain to stop him. The community with friends, the relaxed life with plenty of drinking bouts is too deeply rooted in him and his character is not yet solid enough to be able to withstand it.

A stripper was ordered for the birthday child , and the boys are all very impressed with her. But she prefers to take care of Jimmy than the birthday boy, who wakes up in bed with her the next morning hungover and when he realizes what time it is already, literally flies out of bed and apartment. He beats his big chance and doesn't hit a ball, he fails miserably. Ken tells him that he has become like his father, that he also failed and didn't take his chance.

Annie found out about his nocturnal antics and separates from him. The following week, the always rebellious Jimmy slaps an arrogant superior in the face and then loses his job.

He gets an interview for work in the mine . When he appears on the site of accident are being miners rescued. Among them is his dead brother.

This stroke of fate lets him finally grow up and he finally understands that you have to take your fate into your own hands instead of just drifting, that you don't get chances, but that you usually have to work hard for them. He moves out of home, starts training intensively and finally, through Ken, gets a second chance to audition at Sheffield United .

In between he keeps writing letters to Annie, which are sent back, drops by at her house, where he is constantly being brushed off by her mother. Once he manages to speak to Annie briefly on the street. This time he used his second chance in football, he excelled at auditions and was accepted into the squad , where he first sat on the bench for months. Annie, whom he has worked hard for all this time, finally gives him a second chance. In the match against Manchester United , he is finally substituted and he manages to score the decisive goal. His childhood dream has now come true.

Remarks

  • Sean Bean is a big fan of Sheffield United, so he had a lot of fun filming it and he said in an interview that he even made such a film for free.
  • Melanie Hill, the sister of Jimmy Muir in the film, was married to Bean from February 27, 1990 to August 1997 and has two daughters with him.
  • During filming in 1995, producer James Daly and director Maria Giese had been married for 12 years. When the film hit theaters a year later, the two had already split up. James Daly was later dating Bean's ex-wife Melanie Hill
  • The film originally had two working titles before it got its final title "When Saturday Comes" - "A Pint O'Bitter" and "On The Line"
  • Sheffield United captain, hating the obsessive Jimmy Muir, is played by a previous Sheffield Wednesday kicker Mel Sterland.
  • There is also a football magazine called When Saturday Comes.

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