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Article: Stars United behind Yorks soccer movie.
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- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2006
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By Stuart Robinson
JUST across town, Tom Cruise was at the premiere of his latest movie, Mission Impossible III.
But yesterday at London's intimate Curzon cinema, cast, crew and the YEP gathered for their own exclusive screening of a true independent Britflick.
After low-key showings in Paris and Bristol earlier this year, writer-director and lifelong Leeds United fan Chris Cook's football black comedy The Penalty King made its London debut to a select audience of those who helped make it.
The film tells the story of Leeds United fanatic Lee Vaughan, whose "lad's mag" lifestyle of football and sex is cut short when he is struck blind ...