
The year is 1956. American philosophy student Michael is traveling en route to India when he decides to stop at Links of Burningbush in Scotland for one last round of golf before giving up the game for good.... (Full plot summary below)
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The year is 1956. American philosophy student Michael is traveling en route to India when he decides to stop at Links of Burningbush in Scotland for one last round of golf before giving up the game for good.
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| VarietyRonnie ScheibIn this shoestring outing, Susan Streitfeld ("Female Perversions") opts for an unsettling mix of low-tech cinematic tricks and temporal reshufflings to simulate the process of enlightenment to sometimes laudable, usually ludicrous effect. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerEveryone spouts nicely turned baloney elevating golf to the level of a religious experience, which grows tedious fairly quickly. The film almost works, though, if you view the whole thing as a very, very dry comedy. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter HartlaubDon't invest too much in the word "Golf" at the beginning of the title. Golf in the Kingdom is arguably less of a sports movie than the first "Harry Potter." (At least someone won that game of quidditch ...) |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThe film, for all its trite lessons, forgets that people mainly play golf because they enjoy it. |
| Village VoiceNick SchagerFrom the outset, Streitfeld hopscotches back and forth over her tale's 24 hours with a self-conscious aesthetic affectation (overlapping imagery, shifting camera speeds, elliptical edits) that demolishes any intelligible character or plot development, resulting in a story comprised of pretentious meditative fragments. |
| User ReviewGordon PLove golf and the book so much I bought this DVD. It is simply awful. It's too bad really. All of the components for a fantastic movie are here: a great cast, a beautiful setting, a good storyline, and a glorious sport. And it's all wasted. |
| User ReviewDarkstarshadesWORST SPORT MOVIE EVER, HATED IT, HATEEED IT!!!! AAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!, well, this movie was not funny, senseless, pointless, and I just wasted a lot of money for a ticket expecting to see as much as a comedy or sport film but... not this... |