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Eleven Men Out (2005)

09/02/2005 Drama, Comedy 1h 27m
55%
User
Score
5.0/10
36%

The beautiful game just got prettier

Overview

The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism

Róbert I. Douglas

Director

Jón Atli Jónasson

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Björn Hlynur Haraldsson

Björn Hlynur Haraldsson

Ottar Thor

Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir

Lilja Nótt Þórarinsdóttir

Gugga

Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson

Arnmundur Ernst Björnsson

Magnus

Helgi Björnsson

Helgi Björnsson

Pétur

Þorsteinn Bachmann

Þorsteinn Bachmann

Georg

Sigurður Skúlason

Sigurður Skúlason

Eirikur

Damon Younger

Damon Younger

Brósi

Marius Sverrisson

Marius Sverrisson

Starri

Hilmar Jónsson

Hilmar Jónsson

Viktor Ingi

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Media

Eleven Men Out Trailer

Eleven Men Out Trailer

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Reviews

A review by bobbeijing

Written on April 14, 2015

Ottar Thor (Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson) is the handsome, arrogant star player of a pro soccer team, as well as main breadwinner for a family in which the overbearing males seem to spend most of their time telling long-suffering wives to shaddap. Ottar is divorced from his spouse, a former Miss Iceland (Lilja Nott as Gugga) turned full-time alcoholic. They share custody of adolescent son Magnus (Arnmundur Ernst), who buries himself in videogames.

Ottar doesn’t think about the repercussions when he decides to tell a journalist — in the locker room after a game — that he’s gay. His motivation is no loftier than securing a magazine cover for himself. But teammates, the conservative owners, and everyone else immediately freak out. Ottar finds himself banned from play, and for lack of an...

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