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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like The Four Year Plan, it offers unusually close access to a club under immense expectation, where tactical ideals, executive pressure and forceful personalities make success feel precarious.
02
Why this pick
Its candid, character-led look at former players taking over a struggling club shares the original’s mix of football obsession, financial risk, clashing egos and volatile boardroom ambition.
03
Why this pick
A propulsive archival portrait of football’s collision with celebrity, money and local politics, carrying the same sense that private power struggles can reshape everything on the pitch.
04
Why this pick
This access-driven underdog documentary turns a battered national team’s rebuilding process into tense, funny and deeply human drama, with the emotional swings of a season-long football campaign.
05
Why this pick
It widens the sport-and-power theme into a gripping investigation of how football, wealth and public pressure become dangerously entangled, while retaining strong character focus and mounting stakes.
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01 / THE STORY
In 2007 Queens Park Rangers, a small Football Club of West London, were bottom of England's Second League and 2 hours from bankruptcy. Just as the club faced liquidation, they were bought by billionaire businessmen. Filmed in an observational fashion from a poetic distance, the documentary follows the larger than life and high profile characters who put their money and reputations on the line through 4 tumultuous years of enormous ups and downs. For 98 dramatic minutes we are given unprecedented access and remarkable insight into the worlds of sport, business, finance, power and ego - culminating in success in 2011, when QPR won promotion to the Premier League and the four year plan - set out by the owners in 2007 - was spectacularly achieved.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Alejandro Agag
Gareth Ainsworth
Amit Bhatia
Flavio Briatore
Iain Dowie
Bernie Ecclestone
Hogan Ephraim
John Harbin