Summaries

After their most recent loss, a soccer team discovers its goalie is gay and casts him out. He retaliates by bringing back an all-gay team for a game to prove who's better.

Fair-haired Ecki, the baker's son, has grown up the golden boy of his home town. All that changes the instant he and his soccer teammates discover he's gay. Now the object of scorn and ridicule (and finding himself unceremoniously kicked off his team), Ecki travels to the city of Dortmund to recruit an all-gay soccer team to return and prove to his town and his former soccer mates who the best men are. As first-time-out Ecki searches blindly through gay watering holes for players, his parents endure a rash of derisive gay jokes from the townies, leaving Ecki's gruff father to hope for a change in his son's orientation while also considering closing down the family business.—statmanjeff

Details

Keywords
  • gay character
  • three word title
  • gay protagonist
  • discovering someone is gay
  • gay soccer player
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • Sport
Release date Oct 6, 2004
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin Germany
Language English German
Filming locations Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Production companies Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) FilmFernsehFonds Bayern Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Box office

Gross US & Canada $28324
Opening weekend US & Canada $7425
Gross worldwide $1140909

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 46m
Color Color
Aspect ratio

Synopsis

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