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   • 7.5/10 7.5/10 IMDb
   • 96% 96% Rotten Tomatoes

   Critics consensus Appropriately hard-hitting on narrative as well as physical levels, The Sporting Life remains a British "kitchen sink" classic that's beautiful to look at and leaves a lingering mark. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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   Rated 4/5 Stars • 01/28/23. Lindsay Anderson. Director. Richard Harris. Frank Machin. Rachel Roberts. Mrs. Margaret Hammond. Alan Badel. Gerald Weaver. Watchlist. Yorkshire coal miner Frank Machin...

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   • Actors: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

   • Director: Lindsay Anderson
   • Produce Company: The Rank Organization [Gb]

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   This Sporting Life may be a touch overlong, but it is overall a truly brilliant movie and still hits hard after all these years. It has a very realistic story, and the characters are given so much depth and realism it is hard not to empathise.

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   Is This Sporting Life based on a true story?

   • This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life.

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   Is This Sporting Life a good movie?

   • Sign in to vote. This Sporting Life may be a touch overlong, but it is overall a truly brilliant movie and still hits hard after all these years. It has a very realistic story, and the characters are given so much depth and realism it is hard not to empathise.

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   Is 'Sporting Life' a satire?

   • One of the defining films of the British New Wave, "Sporting Life" revolves around Frank Machin (Richard Harris), a short tempered guy who becomes a star on the rugby circuit. The film's a bit of an anomaly in Anderson's filmography. His later films tend to be stylised satires.

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   What is This Sporting Life about?

   • Sign in to vote. A gritty kitchen sink drama from director Lindsay Anderson, THIS SPORTING LIFE is a character study of a man struggling with existential angst and the driving motivations of conquest and anger that are causing his life to spiral out of control.

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   Jun 6, 2009 · This Sporting Life. (12A) Philip French. Sat 6 Jun 2009 19.01 EDT. B ack on the big screen are two of the most significant British films of the 1960s, both based on highly regarded novels, drawing ...

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   This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting ...

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   Jan 21, 2008 · by Arthur Ryel-Lindsey. January 21, 2008. Working-class thug Frank Machin (Richard Harris) turns a dance club brawl into a tryout with the city rugby team, where he earns enough success, wealth, and fame to soothe the aching heart of the widow with whom he lodges, Margaret Hammond (Rachel Roberts).

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   This Sporting Life Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Penelope Gilliatt Observer (UK) This Sporting Life is a stupendous film. It has a blow like a...

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   Jan 21, 2008 · By Neil Sinyard. Jan 21, 2008. M idway through David Storey’s novel This Sporting Life, published in 1960, the widow Mrs. Hammond tells the hero that her relationship with him is making her feel “dirty.” “I couldn’t think why she should say all this,” he muses, “and the shortest way of stopping it I found was to hit her.”.