Vicki Cherkas

When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.

In the 1970s the North American Soccer League marked the first attempt to introduce soccer to American sports fans. While most teams had only limited success at best, one managed to break through to genuine mainstream popularity - the New York Cosmos. The brainchild of Steve Ross (Major executive at Warner Communications) and the Ertegun brothers (Founders of Atlantic Records), the Cosmos got off to a rocky start in 1971, but things changed in 1975 when the world's most celebrated soccer star, the Brazilian champion Pele, signed with the Cosmos for a five-million-dollar payday. With the arrival of Pele, the Cosmos became a hit and the players became the toast of the town, earning their own private table at Studio 54. A number of other international soccer stars were soon lured to the Cosmos, including Franz Beckenbauer, Rodney Marsh, and Carlos Alberto, but with the turn of the decade, the team began losing favor with fans and folded in 1985.

子どものような大人と大人のような子ども。まるで気の合わないようにみえたふたりが、いつしか心を通わせ友情を育んでいく、ほのぼのコメディー。天真らんまんな女のコを演じるのは、『8Mile』や『ジャスト・マリッジ』など幅広い役作りで人気急上昇中のブリタニー・マーフィ。対する子ども役は大人顔負けの演技で、出演作めじろ押しのダコタ・ファニング。撮影は全編ニューヨークで行なわれ、随所にエッセンスを加えている。