Brassed Off

1996

1h 47m

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7.0/10

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A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

Directors

Mark Herman

Writers

Mark Herman(screenplay by)

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Pete Postlethwaite

Tara Fitzgerald

Ewan McGregor

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Danny

Gloria

Andy Barrow

Phil

Harry

Jim

Ernie

Vera

Sandra

Ida

Rita

Simmo

Greasley

Mrs. Foggan

Chapman

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Ward Sister (as Sally Adams)

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Mark Herman

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Mark Herman(screenplay by)

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7/10

A touching drama of a declining mining community in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Pete Postlethwaite is subtle but forceful in his portrayal of "Danny"; the leader of the Grimley Colliery Band - one of the traditional brass bands that usually accompanied each mine in the North of England, much a there is a choir usually associated with a Welsh one. The story marries the inevitability of the mine closure with the impact on family and relationships throughout this close knit community and uses their band rehearsals as the axis for the plot. Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson and Jim Carter all contribute genuinely to this frequently dryly-humoured ensemble effort and by the end we are all too familiar with Rodrigo's "Concerto de Orange Juice".

Geronimo196727 Aug, 2023