A Shot At Glory

Robert Duvall dons tartan and a thick brogue to star as Gordon McLeod, the manager of a failing Scottish football club. The second-division club -- dubbed Kilnockie after the fishing town it calls home -- has a new owner, an American named Pete Cameron (Michael Keaton), who pressures McLeod to ...more

A Shot at Glory is a tremendous film and a throwback to old-fashioned cinematic traditions. Elegant, exciting, heartbreaking and nearly perfect it its structure, casting and production values, it transcends every genre it touches. The dramatic elements are genuine and carefully developed; the brilliant sports sequences are edited in such a way that all you need to know about soccer is that you kick a ball into a goal; and the comedic sequences are cleverly rendered so as not to dilute the ...more