Looking for Eric

George Fenton

Eric Bishop is a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis. Looking after his granddaughter is bringing him into contact with his exwife, Lily, whom he abandoned after the birth of their daughter. At the same time, his stepson Ryan is hiding a gun under the floorboards of his bedroom for a violent drugs baron. At his lowest moments Bishop considers suicide. But after a short meditation session with fellow postmen in his living room, and smoking cannabis stolen from his stepson, hallucinations bring forth his footballing hero, the famously philosophical Eric Cantona, who gives him advice. His relationship with Lily improves dramatically. Bishop finds the gun and confronts his stepson. Ryan admits to his involvement with the drugs gang, and Bishop attempts to return the gun to the gangster. He is forced to keep it himself, however, when a Rottweiler is set on him in his car. The gangster then posts footage on YouTube of Bishops humiliation. The entire family is then arrested by the police on a tipoff but they fail to find the gun as it is hidden in the fridge, under a chicken. Eric Cantona then advises Bishop to seek help from his friends and to surprise himself. Bishop organises Operation Cantona, sneaking dozens of fellow Manchester United fans wearing Cantona masks into the gangsters house and humiliating him and his family, threatening to put the video of their operation onto YouTube, in turn. The film ends at Bishops daughters graduation day, where the family reunites in peace.The songwriter and Manchester United fan Pete Boyle appears in the film as the songleader on the coach MusicBand appearance By THE EMPERORS OF RHYTHM ........

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