Watch: Looking for Eric 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – Eric Bishop, a middle-aged postman working for the Manchester sorting office, is going through a dreadful crisis. For starters, his second life companion has not resurfaced although she was released from prison a few months ago. He is left alone with two stepsons to look after, which is no bed of roses since the two teens disrespect him and keep disobeying him. To make matters worse, Ryan, the older boy, fascinated by Zac, a dangerous gangster, has accepted to hide his gun in Eric’s house. On the other hand, he is asked by Sam, his student daughter who has a newborn baby, to get back in touch with Lily, his separated wife. Now, Eric left her not long after she gave back to their daughter. As a result Eric panics – Having lost all his bearings, Eric Bishop soliloquizes face to the poster of his idol, another Eric, French footballer Eric Cantona, when the latter appears just like the genie out of Aladdin’s lamp. Through a series of aphorisms peculiar to him, the footballer-philosopher will help remorse-ridden desperate Eric Bishop to get by..
Plot: A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor — the ex-footballer Eric Cantona.
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The legend of Cantona now lives on through the movies.Wonderful.
Being an armchair Manchester United fan now for almost 20 years i had a lot of interest in seeing Ken Loachs’ film when i first got wind of it.The presence of Eric Cantona still looms large over Old Trafford and indeed fans still sing his name to this day.In a way,watching Looking For Eric made me fall in love with Cantona and Manchester United all over again. This film does what all good fantasy films should do , it makes you feel good. We start the film with our central character in the depths of unhapiness and witness a transformation,thanks to life coaching by Eric Cantona (watch out Paul McKenna) . Cantona is a man with undeniable presence.Those who might sneer and scoff at his attempts to break in to the film world will be made to eat their words as Cantona brings every ounce of mysticism and humanity to his performance. It’s true that it pays to know about Cantona and the impression he made upon the English game of football. In all the years since he has left the game, no one has quite replicated what he achieved. He will be remembered by Manchester United fans alongside greats like Best and Charlton and now also by movie fans for a touching and memorable performance in a film that deserves high praise.
Wonderful
The last Ken Loach film I saw was “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” which was a disappointingly simplistic historical epic. He’s best when he drops the partisan politics and focuses on the lives of ordinary, flawed people trying to live their lives in harsh working class environments, and he’s back to that here, in this tale of a Manchester postman whose life and family are in bad disrepair. The Loach film “Looking for Eric” reminded me most of is “Raining Stones”: both seem comparatively light for quite a while, gritty and realistic (and wonderfully foul-mouthed) but also very funny, almost in a “Full Monty” mode. And then a huge shock that we should have been expecting suddenly raises the stakes and our emotional involvement. “Eric” differs from “Stones” in finding a more upbeat finale, by way of a climactic confrontation that must be seen to be believed. Throughout, the football fan camaraderie provides Loach with an infectious and fun way to make his point about friendship and community. Best of all is the rapport between the two Erics, protagonist Eric Bishop and real life Man U. footballer Eric Carmona, who appears as himself. His role in the plot is much the same as Humphrey Bogart’s in Woody Allen’s “Play It Again, Sam”, but the context here raises the gimmick to something far more urgent and finally moving. Highly recommended.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 56 min (116 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Director Ken Loach
Writer Paul Laverty
Actors Steve Evets, Eric Cantona, Stephanie Bishop
Country United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Spain
Awards 3 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arricam ST
Laboratory DeLuxe, London, UK (color)
Film Length 3,218 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 250D 8563, Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Kodak Vision 2383)