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Jun 30, 1988 · Playing Away: Directed by Horace Ové. With Norman Beaton, Robert Urquhart, Helen Lindsay, Nicholas Farrell. To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South London to a charity game with comical results.
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- Comedy
- Horace Ové
- 1988-06-30
5.5K views 1 year ago. A group of West Indian cricketers from inner city London are invited to participate in a charity match against a village team from rural Suffolk. ...more.
- 102 min
- 5.5K
- Play For Forever
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Pioneering Trinidad-born British filmmaker Horace Ové's Playing Away is a fascinating concoction of deceptively light-hearted satirical comedy and social commentary on race relations, as well as an underdog sports story that cleverly waits until the final minutes to reveal which team are in fact the underdogs.
- Horace Ové
- Channel 4 Television
1 hr 41 min. 5.9 (195) Playing Away is a thought-provoking 1987 comedy-drama film directed by Horace Ové. The movie captures the humor and tension that ensues when two vastly different communities are brought together through cricket.
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- Norman Beaton, Robert Urquhart, Helen Lindsay
- Horace Ové
- Filmrise
A weekend in the country away from the inner city produces unexpected results both on and off the field of play. Playing Away subtly explores and undermines white and black stereotypes and succeeds in linking two familiar but strange cultures through the simple device of a cricket match.
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