‘Next Goal Wins’ Review: Taika Waititi Adds The Heart And Humor To Real Life Story Of Losing American Somoan Soccer Team’s Ultimate Vindication – Toronto Film Festival
deadline.comFall film festivals are usually where we look for the more serious awards bait pictures, but occasionally as with tonight’s rousing World Premiere of Taikia Waititi’s long-gestating American Somoan soccer comedy, Next Goal Wins, you get a real commercial crowd pleaser.
That is exactly what Waititi has delivered in adapting the 2014 documentary of the same time by filmmakers Mike Brett and Steve Jamison.
Yes, this heartfelt movie fits right in with the well-overworked Hollywood sports movie formula – you know the ragtag team that becomes triumphant against all odds.
The triumph here wasn’t on a huge scale for the American Samoan team which notoriously holds the record for the single biggest loss in International Football history when they lost the World Cup to Australia 31 to 0 in 2001.
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