These four men have so much in common that you'd be forgiven for thinking that they weren't a four-man football (soccer) team.
They show the friendship that men can have: Secrets, lies, and truth, in measures enough to make the friendship viable, even necessary.
The ensemble of women around them make the men look like angels, at times, until you see the signs of the men's individual and collective guilt about some of what goes on among this extended friendship group: The character that seems best settled into bachelorhood turns out to be truly a modern male lover; love turns to dust and back again; what seems a shallow, flippant fling turns into real love; the one you like at first turns out to be a misogynist after all, or is he?
The film has a little of almost everyone in it, so it resonates for us all.
They show the friendship that men can have: Secrets, lies, and truth, in measures enough to make the friendship viable, even necessary.
The ensemble of women around them make the men look like angels, at times, until you see the signs of the men's individual and collective guilt about some of what goes on among this extended friendship group: The character that seems best settled into bachelorhood turns out to be truly a modern male lover; love turns to dust and back again; what seems a shallow, flippant fling turns into real love; the one you like at first turns out to be a misogynist after all, or is he?
The film has a little of almost everyone in it, so it resonates for us all.