Fast Girls

"You Have As Much Right To Be Here as They Do..."
In the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympics, writer Noel Clarke, producer Damian Jones and director Regan Hall decided to capitalize on pre-event excitement by putting into gear their long-planned project of an all-girl relay team. In the grand tradition of sporting movies, "Fast Girls" is a film that contains all the clichés of the genre, but still has enough energy and charm to be worth a look - especially for girls.

Bearing more than a few resemblances to Bend It Like Beckham, the story centers around two female sprinters: lower-class Shania Andrews (Leonora Crichlow, best known as Annie from Being Human) and high-achieving Lisa Temple (Lily James, currently playing Rose on Downton Abbey). Neither one gets much support from their families - Shania's...

Good
Good story nice shots for track and field even the body double they used for the main black girl n the film..

Thoroughly enjoyable
I watched this film because I'll watch anything with Bradley James in it - even if he isn't the star. It turned out that I liked the whole film very much. I won't rehash the plot, since other reviewers have already done that. There's nothing groundbreaking here - you can pretty much guess what the outcome will be, but it's well cast and well acted - a true feelgood film. Very enjoyable.

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