A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.
- Awards
- 13 wins & 31 nominations total
Alberto Nieto Ferrández
- Benito
- (as Alberto Nieto)
Jesús Lago
- Jesús
- (as Jesús Lago Solís)
Featured reviews
Inspiring sports film that follows the formula of the trainer with problems that grows as a person next to his team that also has problems.
If the formula works do not break it, and here it works for a good time in the movies with mom. The colorful characters that make up this basketball team are those who maintain this film with their charisma, as well as the initial approach to the story, which is attractive and captures attention.
However, the plot is going through the path of laziness to resolve their conflicts, until reaching a moment where the main character makes an unethical decision to solve a problem; this makes the outcome anticlimactic.
In the epilogue, this character also sins superbly and makes his team do something that he should have done because his life changed thanks to them. This ruins the moral of the story, putting a corny but loose outcome.
In short, it is a film of good intentions but that goes from more to less until reaching an unsatisfactory resolution.
..tells in a humorous way. An appeal to all of us....who forget the real meaning of life.
Marco Montes after an heated argument turning into him pushing the head coach, gets drunk and crashes into a police car. His driving license is revoked and to avoid prison, he is offered a community service where he gets to coach intellectually disabled basketball team. This turns his life around as he learns what it feels to be a team and a better human, spending time coaching and even mends his relationship with his wife. Will his team win the championship forms rest of the story.
The film's strength is it's inspiring story and the lovable team from Los Amigos. The performances instantly clicked with me and also Javier Gutierrez as Marco. The screenplay does get convenient in the second half and a couple of scenes do get over dramatic but they can be easily ignored as the story itself is engaging enough till the end. There is a perfect balance between the humor and the dramatic moments. Definitely recommended.
The film's strength is it's inspiring story and the lovable team from Los Amigos. The performances instantly clicked with me and also Javier Gutierrez as Marco. The screenplay does get convenient in the second half and a couple of scenes do get over dramatic but they can be easily ignored as the story itself is engaging enough till the end. There is a perfect balance between the humor and the dramatic moments. Definitely recommended.
Watched as part of institute cervantes festival, thank you
this starts of in a completey differnet direction and doesnt stop ducking and weaving right to the end as have a fabulour hilarious ride along. Its so clever in handleing its theme or several theme that any audience is going to have a hoot. Highly recommend , effective use of the instrument of cinema!
this starts of in a completey differnet direction and doesnt stop ducking and weaving right to the end as have a fabulour hilarious ride along. Its so clever in handleing its theme or several theme that any audience is going to have a hoot. Highly recommend , effective use of the instrument of cinema!
Did you know
- TriviaLooking for more realism, director Javier Fesser wanted non-professional actors, but real-life disabled people for the basketball team. All of them make their debut with this movie.
- GoofsThe employee of the shop looks very much after his motor home, and he is very reluctant to lend it. As an example of how much he takes care of the van, he mentions that he uses 98 octane petrol (gas). Motor homes in Spain (except for a few very old ones) run on diesel.
- Crazy creditsThere is one more scene just before the closing credits are complete.
- Alternate versionsRemade several times in different countries and languages: "Champions" (2021, Saudi Arabia); "Weil wir Champions sind" (2022, German TV Movie); "Champions" (2023, USA); "Sitaare Zameen Par" (announced 2023, in post-production January 2025, indian).
- ConnectionsFeatured in Premios Goya 33 edición (2019)
- SoundtracksPick and Roll
Written by Rafael Arnau (as Rafa Arnau)
Performed by Los Floros and Pablo Sanpa (guitar)
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Somos campeones
- Filming locations
- Islantilla, Isla Cristina/Lepe, Huelva, Andalucía, Spain(Hotel de Canarias)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- €4,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $27,344,401
- Runtime
- 2h 4m(124 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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