Nineteen-year-old Jason and Ade have been in the Academy of a famous London football club since they were eight years old. It's the night before their first-ever game for the first team - a Champions League match - and they're in a hotel room in Romania. They should be sleeping, but they're over-excited. They skip, fight, mock each other, prepare their kit, watch a teammate's sex tape. And then, out of nowhere, one of them kisses the other. The impact of this 'pass' reverberates through the next ten years of their lives - a decade of fame and failure, secrets and lies, in a sporting world where image is everything.
Russell Tovey gives a layered, career-best performance in an intense interior drama that never quite shakes its theatrical origins.
Russell Tovey scores as a gay footballer in this adaptation of John Donnelly's stage play.
An urgent, well-executed story.
Its stage roots show through at times, but this story of homoerotic tension between two youth team players is well made and acted.
Crass and heavy-handed in places, The Pass still has its merits.
This adapted stage play about a closeted footballer is insightful but fails to embrace the advantages of film.
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