Regie:
Mark HermanScenario:
Mark HermanCamera:
Andy CollinsActeurs:
Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Sue Johnston, Melanie Hill, Philip Jackson, Stephen Moore, Kenneth Colley (meer)Samenvattingen(1)
Een mijndorpje wordt bedreigd om gesloten te worden. De enige hoop voor de inwoners is dat hun Grimley Colliery Brass Band meedoet aan een nationale competitie. De bewoners hebben de hoop al opgegeven als ineens Gloria verschijnt met haar blaasinstrument. Ze wordt de enige hoop voor de band en zet haar relatie met haar vriend Andy op het spel als ze meedoet met de band. (Cinemien)
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The film is thematically similar to its more successful younger siblings, The Full Monty and Billy Elliot. The truth is that this film is not as entertaining as The Full Monty and does not have as sophisticated a screenplay as Billy Elliot, but it is still an above-average British film. It is a film that is much more direct and politically engaged from a left-wing standpoint, with several scenes that are overtly declarative and emotionally calculated, though indeed based on real events when tens of thousands of employees lost their jobs in the 80s and their lives irreversibly collapsed. There are a huge number of films that try to emotionally manipulate the viewer in favor of a much more trivial message. Overall impression: 70%.
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