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Looking for Eric

Release Date: 2009

Cast: Gerard Kearns, Steve Evets, Dylan Williams, Stephanie Bishop, Éric Cantona, Lucy-Jo Hudson, Laura Ainsworth, John Henshaw, Cole Williams, Matthew McNulty

Categories: Movies, Fantasy Comedy, Fantasy, Drama Film, Sports, Indie, Comedy, Comedy-Drama

Looking for Eric is a 2009 French/Belgian/British film about the escape from the trials of modern life that football and its heroes can bring for its fans. It was written by screen writer Paul Laverty and directed by English director Ken Loach. The film's cast includes former professional footballer Eric Cantona and former bassist with The Fall, Steve Evets. Director Ken Loach said of the film, "We wanted to deflate the idea of celebrities as more than human. And we wanted to make a film that was enjoying the idea of what you and I would call solidarity, but what others would call support... MORE

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Eric the postman is slipping through his own Manchester postal worker Eric Bishop is at the end of his rope. His two layabout stepsons show him no respect, his second marriage is in ruins, a car accident lands him in the hospital - and that is just the start of his troubles. The lovelorn Eric meanwhile pines after the wife he left thirty years earlier, but lacks the confidence to reconnect. Only the friendship of his mates at the post office and his love of the Manchester United soccer team keep him above water. In desperate times it takes a spliff and a special friend to help a lost postman find his way, so Eric turns to his idol, French-born soccer genius and philosopher, Eric Cantona. With the enigmatic advice on life and love from Cantona to spur him on, Eric sets to get his life back on track.

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