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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

The worst sports movie in history? I asked Sepp Blatter about Fifa’s United Passions

Sam Neill as João Havelange and Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter in United Passions.
Sam Neill as João Havelange and Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter in United Passions. Photograph: Cinematic/Alamy

There are movies that bomb at the box office. And then there is the Fifa biopic United Passions, starring Tim Roth, Sam Neill and Gérard Depardieu, which was hit with the cinematic equivalent of a thermonuclear strike when it opened in the US 10 years ago this week.

You might remember the fallout; the fact it took only $918 (£678) in its opening weekend, making it the lowest grossing film in US history at the time, and the stories detailing how two people bought tickets to see it in Philadelphia, and only one in Phoenix, before it was pulled by distributors.

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