Goal! The Dream Begins (2006) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	May 12, 2006
On DVD:	September 12, 2006
Genre:	Drama, Sports
Director:	Danny Cannon
Writer:	Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
Cast:	Kuno Becker, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Marcel Iures, Sean Pertwee, Alessandro Nivola
Studio:	Touchstone Pictures
Official site:	goalmovie.com
Running Time:	118 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated PG-13 for some sexual content, language and a brief drug reference

How far would you go to live your dream? When Santiago Munez (KUNO BECKER) is given the chance of a lifetime, he must leave his family, his life in Los Angeles and everything that he knows to travel halfway around the globe to England and into a completely foreign world - the exciting, fast-paced and glamorous world of international soccer.

As an underprivileged Mexican-American immigrant growing up in the poor section of Los Angeles, Santiago...

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Goal!: The Dream Begins sat on my shelf for two weeks before I finally plugged in the DVD. Why? The title. Perhaps the title sounds good in Europe, but Goal!, by itself, is cheesy enough, and Goal! The Dream Begins is absolutely painful. No wonder the film flopped in American theaters.

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