Hopefuls

Hopefuls

75 mins | Drama | July 4, 2015

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...

Hopefuls

75 mins | Drama | July 4, 2015

Hopefuls
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...
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers
Original title Aspirantes
Directors Ives Rosenfeld
Writers Pedro Freire, Ives Rosenfeld

Cast

Ariclenes Barroso

as Junior

Sergio Malheiros

as Bento

Julia Bernat

as Karina / Bittencourt

Karine Teles

as Sandra

Guti Fraga

as Padilha

Aury Porto

as Tio