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A young woman is torn between two cultures!
MovieAddict - wrote on 02/19/2012
A young British-born teen girl – Jasminder or Jess (Parminder Nagra) of east-Indian heritage loves playing football more than anything else and her biggest idol is David Beckham dreams of playing professional soccer; the kind forbidden by her traditionalist mother who just wants her to get married to a nice Indian Boy and learn to make perfect Aloo Gobi.
So when she is spotted in a park by Jules (Keira Knightley), who plays for the local girls' team, an invitation to try out is both alluring and forbidden. Jess makes the team, becomes friends with Jules, develops a crush on her coach Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), and spends the summer hiding her passion from her family as she prepares for college and her sister's wedding. But when her sister’s wedding is scheduled for the same day …
