Bend It Like Beckham for the next three weekends, before being overtaken by "About a Boy". The film was released on DVD and VHS on 18 November 2002 by Warner Home Video. Among the DVD bonus features, there are several scenes that did not make the final release. Some include dialogue from Pinky's friends and from Jules, as well as her mother meeting Kevin and his friends outside a shop, which would have been helpful, as Kevin is mentioned three times but is never seen. "Bend It Like Beckham" surprised critics and met with mostly positive reviews. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the
A Girl Like Her WomenWho Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before" Roe v. Wade", places the women’s stories within the social history of the time period and Fessler’s story as an adoptee. It was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 and received the Women’s Way Ballard Book Prize in 2008, a prize given annually to a female author who makes a significant contribution to the dialogue about women’s rights. "A Girl Like Her" premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival "in April 2012" "and went on to screen at the "Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival",