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 not her mother, Fessler, an adoptee, was deeply moved by the woman’s story. She subsequently produced several autobiographical installations on adoption; two featured her previous short films "Cliff & Hazel" about her adoptive family, and "Along the Pale Blue River" (2001/2013) about her search for a yearbook picture of her mother. At each installation site, Fessler invited audience members to write and post their own adoption stories and based on the anonymous stories left behind by first mothers, she initiated an oral history project to collect the women’s stories. In 2002, Fessler began interviewing women who lost children to adoption