Brassed Off
BRASSED OFFÂ (15)
D: Mark HermanÂ
Prominent/Channel 4 (Steve Abbott)
USA 🇬🇧 1996
107 mins
Comedy/Drama
W: Mark Herman
DP: Andy Collins
Ed: Michael Ellis
Mus: Trevor Jones
PD: Don Taylor
Pete Posthelthwaite (Danny Ormondroyd), Ewan McGregor
(Andy Barrow), Tara Fitzgerald (Gloria Mullins), Stephen Tompkinson (Phil Ormondroyd), Jim Carter (Harry)
Sentimental comedy set in a small mining village where the
mines are set to close, a group of band musicians stick together to play in a national competition.
It's a film which reaches out to people from similar
communities as it's target audience. A year later, The Full Monty was released, focusing on another group of people who formed a unit after the closure of an area's big business- it was much
funnier and relied on comedy to engage its audience rather than schmaltz.
5/10
