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This Sporting Life
Drama
In early 1960s Northern England, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to uncompromising social realism, bruising emotional conflict, and flawed working-class protagonists.
- Tone
- bleak, melancholic, tense
- Payoff
- heartbreak, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- class struggle, ambition, loneliness, grief, emotional repression
- Setting
- early 1960s, industrial working-class town in northern England
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