Bend It Like Beckham Bend It Like Beckham Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 British-Indian family romantic comedy sports film produced, written and directed by Gurinder Chadha, and starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi. The film's title refers to the football player David Beckham, and his skill at scoring from free kicks by curling the ball past a wall of defenders. It follows the 18-year-old daughter of Punjabi Sikhs in London. She is infatuated with football but her parents have forbidden her to play because she is a girl. She joins a local women's
The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946 film) the show, at which she is charmed and gives her approval. According to Warner Bros records it was the studio's most popular film for 1946-47 earning $3,461,000 domestically and $1,370,000 foreign. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946 film) The Time, the Place and the Girl is a 1946 American musical film directed by David Butler. It is unrelated to the 1929 film "The Time, the Place and the Girl". Steve and Jeff are about to open a nightclub when a man named Martin Drew who represents conductor Ladislaus Cassel claims that Cassel, who is living next door, objects