Son of Rambow
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- Synopsis
- As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn't be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon....
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- Starring
- Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Hynes, Neil Dudgeon
- Director(s)
- Garth Jennings
- Distributor(s)
- Paramount Vantage
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 95 min.
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Critic Reviews
In many ways, Son of Rambow plays like a pint-size, even cheekier version of the recent Michel Gondry film "Be Kind Rewind." Both are stories about people making movies not because it's their job but because doing so brings a vast sense of play into their lives.Read the full review
A gentle story that involves a great deal of violence, but mostly the violence is muted and dreamy, like a confrontation with a fearsome scarecrow that looks horrifying but is obviously not real --- or real enough, but not alive.Read the full review
Don't be put off by the title. This is no sequel, but a surprisingly charming British comedy that is only tangentially associated with "Rambo."Read the full review
Headlines
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The Unbearable Rambo-ness of Being
01/07/10 In the '80s, Americans found a new brand of movie hero that corresponded precisely with Reagan-era conservative values. | Independent Film Channel (IFC) -
47% Is Anybody There?
04/16/09 Michael Caine pairs up with young British actor Bill Milner (SON OF RAMBOW) in this touching British drama. | Rotten Tomatoes -
This Is (Still?) England: John Crowley’s “Is Anybody There?”
04/13/09 It even seems that a sharp a social commentator as Shane Meadows is not exempt from these by-laws: a country whose principal cinematic exports used to be crafty spy thrillers, various Shakespeareana, disproportionately well-acted Hammer schlock, and Victorian costume romances now seems to be shipping over a limitless stock of grim yet coy bildungsromans featuring likeable little lads, jaunty music, and the chilly charms of pre-New Labor, pre-EU Britain. | indieWIRE
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