Goal!

Goal! (2005)

Timing: 1:58 (118 min)

6.749/10
1075

7.742/10
45862

6.7/10
68000

All about film

Video 1

Photo 16

Actors and characters

Release date

2005-09-29

Country

Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Touchstone Pictures, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Milkshake Films, Little Magic Films, Toshiba Entertainment

Genre

Drama

Budget

$30 000 000

Revenue

$27 610 873

Website

Director

Danny Cannon

Actors

Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Anna Friel, Stephen Dillane, Gary Lewis, Kieran O'Brien, Sean Pertwee, Marcel Iureș, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Mark Huffam, Mike Jefferies, Matt Barrelle, Lawrence Bender, Peter Hargitay

Operator

Michael Barrett

Composer

Graeme Revell

Artist

Gavin Fitch

Audition

Lucinda Syson, Elaine Grainger

Editing

Chris Dickens, Douglas Dresser
All team (146)

• Diego Luna was long considered the main candidate for the leading role, ultimately choosing to pursue other projects.
• Michael Winterbottom was originally supposed to direct, even starting work on the film, but he left the project due to the producers’ insistence on having a finished script before the start of filming.
• One of the roles was supposed to go to Stellan Skarsgård, who turned down participation in the film immediately after director Michael Winterbottom left. In one interview, he stated that his only motivation for participating in the project was the desire to work with Michael Winterbottom.
• Brian Johnson, the soloist of the famous rock band AC/DC, appears in a cameo as one of the Newcastle fans. Fans of this team are often called Geordies in England; before AC/DC, Brian Johnson sang for a time in a band also called Geordie.
• The final scene, in which Santiago scores a goal for Newcastle against Liverpool, uses footage from a football match between these teams that took place in the 2004/2005 season. In reality, that goal was scored by Newcastle's French midfielder, Laurent Robert.