The Beautiful Game is a British sports drama film directed by Thea Sharrock, from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The film is based on the Homeless World Cup, a real-life football tournament that spotlights unhoused athletes from around the world. It was released on March 29, 2024.
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- "As an English football squad heads to Rome for the Homeless World Cup, their talented new player must let go of his past and learn to be part of a team."
- —Official Netflix synopsis
The Beautiful Game follows a team of English homeless footballers, led by their coach Mal (Bill Nighy), who travel from London to Rome to compete in a global annual football tournament — The Homeless World Cup. At the last minute they decide to bring with them a talented striker, Vinny (Micheal Ward), but he must confront his own issues and once-promising past, in order to help the team win the cup and move on with his own life. In Rome, just as in life, everything’s to play for.
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- Bill Nighy as Mal
- Micheal Ward as Vinny
- Susan Wokoma as Protasia
- Valeria Golino as Gabriella
- Callum Scott Howells as Nathan
- Kit Young as Cal
- Sheyi Cole as Jason
- Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Kevin
- Robin Nazari as Aldar
- Aoi Okuyama as Mika
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