Hopefuls (2015)

  • NR
  • 07/04/2015 (CZ)
  • Drama
  • 1h 15m

Overview

Junior, as he’s known, since he’s essentially still a child, seems to be having a tough time getting on in life. He shares cheap lodgings with another fellow and earns money doing strenuous night shifts at a warehouse. It’s no surprise that he lives for football and desperately hangs onto the dream of perhaps every Brazilian kid – to become a famous player. Although he trains hard with his amateur team, he’s not one of the best. He won’t admit to the mounting jealousy he feels as he watches his talented friend doing extremely well on the pitch. What’s more, his prospects don’t look so rosy now that his young girlfriend Carine is pregnant, and he also has to deal with her dominant mother poking her nose in...

Ives Rosenfeld

Director, Writer

Pedro Freire

Writer

Cast

Ariclenes Barroso's headshot

Ariclenes Barroso

Junior
Sergio Malheiros's headshot

Sergio Malheiros

Bento
Julia Bernat's headshot

Julia Bernat

Karina
Julia Bernat's headshot

Julia Bernat

Bittencourt
Karine Teles's headshot

Karine Teles

Sandra
Guti Fraga's headshot

Guti Fraga

Padilha
Aury Porto's headshot

Aury Porto

Tio

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