Rick Allen

Kicking It -- Thousands of players around the globe train hard and compete to be part of the Homeless World Cup (narrated by Colin Farrell).

In the summer of 2006, while the football world's attention was focused on Germany, thousands of players around the globe were training hard and competing to be part of another World Cup ... The Homeless World Cup. It had been a wild idea by a Scot and an Austrian—to give homeless people a chance to change their lives through an international street soccer competition.Five years later, the annual Homeless World Cup had become an internationally recognized sports competition. 500 homeless players from 48 nations would ultimately be selected to represent their country in Cape Town, South Africa - coming from such disparate parts of the world as war torn Afghanistan, the slums of Kenya, the drug rehab clinics of Dublin, Ireland, the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, the overflowing public shelters of Madrid, Spain, and the unforgiving city of St. Petersburg, Russia, where the homeless have no rights or identity. Win or lose, for these players it would be the journey of a lifetime.

In this college comedy classic based on the hit Broadway play, Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda ("Klute," "On Golden Pond") makes her screen debut as a husband-hunting co-ed who snares a basketball hero (Anthony Perkins, "Psycho," "Murder on the Orient Express") who almost takes a bribe to throw the game. Co-starring Emmy-winner Ray Walston ("Picket Fences," "My Favorite Martian").

Thousands of players around the globe train hard and compete to be part of the Homeless World Cup (narrated by Colin Farrell).