December 9, 2006
great film, eye opening, and at the same time funny, look at the working class in britain
Bruce Jones, Gemma Phoenix, Julie Brown
An unemployed couple living in a council estate in a northern industrial town try to raise funds to buy their daughter a communion dress.
DVD Release Date: June 12, 2007
Stats: 83 reviews
Flixster Reviews (83)
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July 25, 2009I did expect more of this movie. It is surely a small budget movie, quite short, quite simple and the storyline.. well.. there isn't much to tell about. The dialogs are simple as you would expect them to be, so nothing deep to be found here. I liked the accents though :)
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June 9, 2009simile story , hidden humour , a hymn to small thinks and to real people . no great characters , nothing you must try to understand ....
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September 22, 2008This is what I like: small movies about little things that eventually turn out to look so large. Ken Loach has a knack for making the little things of life seem the most important and always uses a desolate landscape to paint us the beauty of humanity. A movie for survivors, what...( read more)
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January 9, 2008Classic Loach, a tale of working class struggle in post-Thatcher, Conservative-ruled Britain, a place of despairing joblessness and disintegrating community.
Despite the unemployment, petty crime and crack that afflict their Lancashire housing estate, Bob (Jones) and wife Ann...( read more) -
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Critic Reviews
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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