The Damned United
A football management drama centered on Brian Clough, reputation, rivalry and the fragile authority of the person standing beside the pitch.
- YEAR
- 2009
- DIRECTOR
- Tom Hooper
- COUNTRY
- United Kingdom
- LENGTH
- 98 min
- SPORT / THEME
- Football · Fiction
- CAST / FEATURED PEOPLE
- Michael Sheen · Timothy Spall · Colm Meaney
The Damned United in the wider sports-film conversation
The Damned United is worth viewing not only as a self-contained story but as part of a wider conversation about how sport is represented on screen. It is useful for reading management as performance: the decisive sporting action often happens in offices, corridors, press rooms and remembered conversations.
Continue through Football, Tom Hooper, 2009 and United Kingdom. For a closer reading, see The Damned United Manager As Character.
Synopsis
A football management drama centered on Brian Clough, reputation, rivalry and the fragile authority of the person standing beside the pitch.
Place in film history
It is useful for reading management as performance: the decisive sporting action often happens in offices, corridors, press rooms and remembered conversations.