It may be called Pelé: Birth of a Legend, but Jeff and Michael Zimbalist‘s film is really about Ginga soccer and Brazil at risk of losing its soul. The climax depicts the 1958 World Cup with the ...

Any biopic attempting to capture the character of a once-in-a-lifetime athlete has its work cut out for it. Brazil’s soccer legend Pelé is one such sportsman, but the breathlessly superficial “Pelé: ...

“Pelé: Birth of a Legend,” a biopic on Brazil’s most famous athlete, will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April 23, open in theaters May 6 and be available on demand May 13. Pelé ...

IFC Films has bought North American rights to the soccer biopic “Pele: Birth of a Legend” for release next year. The story follows the early career of Pele (born Edson Arantes do Nascimento) from his ...

Jeff and Mike Zimbalist's biopic recounts the soccer superstar's rise from poverty to scoring the winning goal in Brazil's first World Cup victory in 1958. By Frank Scheck More than halfway through ...

Many biopics, especially those about sports heroes, follow their subjects well into the prime of adulthood. “Pelé: Birth of a Legend” abandons that trend, stopping while the soccer player who would go ...

IFC Films has acquired North American distribution rights to “Pelé: Birth of a Legend,” a film written and directed by Michael and Jeffrey Zimbalist, whose previous film, “The Two Escobars,” was an ...

In his 1992 soccer-fan memoir “Fever Pitch,” Nick Hornby recalled his first exposure to one of the great Pelé-led Brazilian World Cup teams, writing: “Brazil ruined it for all of us. They had revealed ...

Opening in theaters May 6th and VOD May 13th is the upcoming film PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND. PELÉ tells the miraculous story of the legendary soccer player’s rise to glory from a young boy, to the 17 ...

Bright as a box of Wheaties, with about as much flavor, this biopic of the Brazilian soccer star plays it by the rules. In his 1992 soccer-fan memoir “Fever Pitch,” Nick Hornby recalled his first ...