Starring:
Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson, Lilja Nott
Sigurdur Skulason, Arnaldur Ernst, Jon Atli Jonasson,
with cameo appearance by Minus
Music by:
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Co-Producers:
Mike Downey
Sam Taylor
A HERE! FILMS/REGENT RELEASE THE ICELANDIC FILM COMPANY EHF.
IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH F&ME LTD SOLARFILMS OY IN ASSOCIATION WITH
ICELANDIC FILM CENTRE MOONSTONE INTERNATIONAL INVICTA CAPITAL LIMITED MINISTRY OF INDUSTRIE
“ELEVEN MEN OUT”
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Official Selection
The Berlin International Film Festival 2006
The Toronto International Film Festival 2005
New Directors New Films MoMA New York 2006
Outfest Los Angeles 2006
San Francisco International Film Festival 2006
London Lesbiand & Gay Film Festival 2006
Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2006
Hawaii International Film Festival 2006
Miami Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2006
Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2006
Haifa International Film Festival 2006
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2006
St.Pauli Minneapolis International Film Festival 2006
Seattle International Film Festival 2006
Mexico International Film Festival 2006
Guadalajara International Film Festival 2006
Moscow International Film Festival 2006
Screened at over a 100 other festivals around the world
WINNER
Best of The Fest London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2006
Best of The Fest San Francisco Film Festival 2006
Best of The Fest Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festibal
Best of The Fest Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Best of The Fest Audience Award Hawaii International Film Festival
Nominated
TEDDY Award at Berlin 2006
Panorama Official Selection Berlin 2006
EDDA The Icelandic Academy Awards 2005
(Best Film, Best Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor)
Eleven Men Out (2005)
Ottar Thor is a champion soccer star, handsome and arrogant, who after winning a game casually tells a journalist he's gay. Imagine the surprise to his ex-wife, a former Miss Iceland, his teenage son, already sullen and troubled, and his father, Thor's macho coach.
A breezy and feisty dramtic comedy directed by Robert I.Douglas, this is a story about a man who, much to the chagrin of his family, exchanges one sort of domesticity for another. After choosing a same-sex partner, he is kicked off the championship team where players are presumably straight. But once a player, always a player, and Ottar is offered a spot on a team in a basement soccer league that gay sportsmen from all over Iceland soon insist on joining. The ensemble cast is pitch perfect, as is the tone in this lively account of the surprising accommodations people are capable of making.
Released Theatrically in: France, Germany, USA, Canada, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Portugal, Luxemburg, Swiss, Austria, Italy, Iceland, Finland, Venuzuela, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Norway
"A non pandering CROWD PLEASER" Variety
"Eleven Men Out has thoughtful and funny characters" Hollywood Reporter
"A feel-good movie that really earns the good feelings" San Francisco Guardian
"Hilarious-but-honest deadpan comedy" Out on Film
"I found myself completely engaged in the film" Cinematical.