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Looking for Eric represents the first time a feature film by the football-loving Ken Loach has touched on the sport since Brian Glover's celebrated cameo as the games teacher in Kes 40 years ago, but it's not really about football at all.</p><p>Seen through Loach's social-realist eyes, it's about how a sense of community and collective action can transform lives. Steve Evets as postman Eric, is the ManU fan whose life is falling apart until l'autre Eric, Cantona, appears to him, a guardian angel who helps him back on his feet. Loach demonstrates that it's perfectly possible to make a feelgood film about drugs, guns and gangs, depression and broken families.
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