Brassed Off (Brassed Off!) (1996)
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The 'band' part of the film is not a 'hilarious' result of desperate poverty, but a light hearted parrallel to the grim social realtist portrayal of Thatcher's New Right Britain.
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A good movie
UPC: 717951002457

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" Director: Mike Herman Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald, Stephen Tompkinson, Pete Postlethwaite, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson, Sue Johnston and Stephen Moore The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band."
“To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this movie but, if I recall it correctly, I actually saw the damned thing in the movie theater when it was released. Basically, it is a rather typical British comedy with a fairly realistic social background. The interesting thing about this movie was also the fact that it was dealing with coal mining, an industry which was already dying 20 years ago and which is now pretty much extinct. In this case, on one hand, you feel bad for all this people who will lose their job and will definitely struggle to find something else, but, on other hand, was it really realistic to keep fighting? Anyway, I liked this combination between humor and realism. The very same year, Ewan McGregor already gave his breakthrough performance in โTrainspottingโ” read more

" Director: Mark Herman Starring: Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald, Pete Postlethwaite, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson, Peter Martin, Melanie Hill, Sue Johnston, Mary Healey, Stephen Moore, Kenneth Colley and Peter Gunn The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band."