2001 · drama · comedy
Offside
Directed by Jimmy Dean17m2001
Eleven-year-old Kirsty struggles to accept her looming womanhood as she learns that she will soon lose her position on the local boy's football team.
Our read: Offside (2001) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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