BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM PB

If you re 18, love football and can bend a ball like Beckham, the world must be your oyster, right? Wrong. If you re Jess – 18, Indian and a girl – forget it. Jess just wants to play football but her wedding-obsessed parents have other ideas so she hides it from them. But when Jess and her friend Jules join a ladies team and get spotted by a talent scout, it all kicks off … The Bend it Like Beckham movie was a box-office hit, starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Bend it Like Beckham was also transformed into a musical in London s West End.