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There's only one Jimmy Grimble

English title: There's only one Jimmy Grimble
Original title: There's only one Jimmy Grimble
German title: Es gibt nur einen Jimmy Grimble
Great Britain, 2000

Director: Hay, John
Production company: Sarah Radclyffe Productions, GB-London
Age recommendation: 8 years and up

Synopsis:
Jimmy is a very good football-player, but only when he plays alone in the backyard. In his schoolteam Jimmy all his self-confidence drains away. One day an old woman gives him a pair of worn-down football boots, adding that they will give him magic power...

Comments:
Excellent film not only for football kids, that most successfully made its way through the festivals and will - hopefully - do the same through the cinemas all over Europe.
"Ingenious mixture of humour, sensibility and suspense" (Children's jury at the Berlin Festival 2001)

Marketing strategies:
"There's Only One Jimmy Grimble" has been released theatrically in twenty territories.

Festivals:
Cinekid Amsterdam 2000, Berlin 2001, Award of the children's jury, Kassel 2001, BUFF Malmö (Children's and Young People's Award), Poznan 2001 (Grand Prix), Vienna 2001 (awarded), Braunschweig 2001, Espoo Cine 2002, Cinepaenz Cologne 2002, Kassel 2006

Study guide: German

World sales address/es:
Pathé France
Pathé Int. & UK

Sold to:
Tobis (DE)
Pathé France
Park Junior (NL)
Katholisches Filmwerk (DE)
Folkets Bio (SE)
Alternative Films (B)
A-Film (NL)
Medusa (I)
Pathé Int. & UK