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El Presidente

El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
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Jul 5, 2003
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Pattknull med Haksprut
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True story about a bloke with learning difficulties who has a job as a circus clown. He loses his job and, because he is a massive Stoke fan, goes to the club, and Lou Macari offers him a job as the kit man, and he goes on to be a club hero amongst fans and players. It's a triumph of the spirit.
 




Bry Nylon

Bry Nylon

Test your smoke alarm
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Jul 21, 2003
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Playing snooker
El Presidente said:
True story about a bloke with learning difficulties who has a job as a circus clown. He loses his job and, because he is a massive Stoke fan, goes to the club, and Lou Macari offers him a job as the kit man, and he goes on to be a club hero amongst fans and players. It's a triumph of the spirit.
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Love the bit when ... no, I shan't spoil it for those yet to watch and enjoy every single second of it. Just make sure you watch it.
 


Morvangull

Morvangull

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Oct 19, 2010
715
Bognor Regis
True story brilliantly acted and told. As others have said it was enjoyable and emotional and surely must be in the running for some awards.
 




Stat Brother

Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
73,665
West west west Sussex
Programme_Seller said:
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El Presidente said:
True story about a bloke with learning difficulties who has a job as a circus clown. He loses his job and, because he is a massive Stoke fan, goes to the club, and Lou Macari offers him a job as the kit man, and he goes on to be a club hero amongst fans and players. It's a triumph of the spirit.
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Blimey El Pres, less than half the story and almost completely devoid of emotion.
What's your take on Romeo and Juliet? 'it's just one balcony & two poisonings' ***spoiler alert***

The rest of the thread is a good heads up as to the character.
Neil is a man deemed to be different but doesn't accept it, his life philosophy is 'I want to be happy so that's what I decided to be'. Neil then goes on to impact so many different lives with his force of good nature.

Superficially it's Alan Bennett does Forrest Gump but Tom Hanks can only dream of Toby Jones' performance, which was brilliant.
The script was brilliant and beautifully paced.
It was brilliantly funny and completely heart breaking, with no schmultz.

I just can't imagine there being a better programme/TV film this year.
 






surrey jim

surrey jim

Not in Surrey
Aug 2, 2005
18,093
Bevendean
Is this the first thread in NSC history where everyone agrees? *not seen film but will look it up over the weekend
 


Garage_Doors

Garage_Doors

Originally the Swankers
Jun 28, 2008
11,789
Brighton
El Presidente said:
True story about a bloke with learning difficulties who has a job as a circus clown. He loses his job and, because he is a massive Stoke fan, goes to the club, and Lou Macari offers him a job as the kit man, and he goes on to be a club hero amongst fans and players. It's a triumph of the spirit.
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Thanks for that, defo going to have a look at that.
 














Uncle Spielberg

Uncle Spielberg

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Jul 6, 2003
42,813
Lancing
Toby Jones was magnificent. Surely a shower of awards will come his way
 


Lethargic

Lethargic

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Oct 11, 2006
3,463
Horsham
His attitude to life is to be admired and a great dark sense of humour illustrated by the and Macari interivew and pants scene (these ones chaff), also brilliantly acted. What came across was despite his learning difficulties no one felt sorry for him he actually inspired others around him who found it a genuine pleasure to be his friend.
 


















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