2007 · drama · sports
Goal II: Living the Dream
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra1h 55m2007
Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - personally as well as professionally. He is reunited with Gavin Harris, though they must compete to be on the team, and estranged from fiancee Roz, whose nursing career keeps her back home.
Our read: Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded drama · sports entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle drama / sports, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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- gentle
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