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  • 2016
  • PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2016
  • PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m

Summary Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn’t afford a real soccer ball. [IFC Films]

Directed By: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

Written By: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

  • 2016
  • PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m
  • 2016
  • PG
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 47 m

Pelé: Birth of a Legend

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Summary Pelé. A name known around the world, a sports legend who changed soccer forever, and a national hero who carried the hopes and dreams of a country on his back. But before he was an icon, he was a kid from the slums of São Paulo, Brazil, so poor that he couldn’t afford a real soccer ball. [IFC Films]

Directed By: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

Written By: Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist

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27% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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May 26, 2016
Inspiration, old-fashioned style, is the main course being served in Pelé: Birth of a Legend. In essence commissioned by the soccer icon, who is credited as one of the picture’s executive producers, “Pelé” is hagiography. But appealing hagiography.
By Soren Andersen FULL REVIEW
50
May 19, 2016
Pelé: Birth of a Legend is too earnest and single-minded to be hagiographic, and the final moments are moving in spite of their predictable trajectories.
By Alan Zilberman FULL REVIEW
50
May 13, 2016
A well-meaning and sometimes interesting effort written and directed by brothers Jeff and Michael Zimbalist.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 19, 2016
A sometimes entertaining, dazzling-on-the-field biography built around an utterly colorless lead performance.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
40
May 12, 2016
The film’s director of photography, Matthew Libatique, makes “Pelé” more than an eye-moistening anthem for a built-in global audience.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
38
Apr 25, 2016
The beautiful game, as Pelé called football (or soccer to us Americans), has never felt like such a sedate slog.
By Nick Prigge FULL REVIEW
30
May 12, 2016
Who knows what Pelé: Birth of a Legend could have been had it tapped more into that mysterious life force and the true messiness in harnessing it and making it glorious. Instead we get what the man himself was canny enough to ignore: a familiar game plan tediously followed.
By Robert Abele FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Imagine Entertainment, Seine Pictures, Zohar Cinema, Zohar International
Release Date May 13, 2016
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating PG
Genres
Tagline A boy with nothing who changed everything.
Website http://pele.asmik-ace.co.jp/
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