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Run time:
96 min.
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United Kingdom, France
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Language:
English and French with English subtitles
A runaway audience smash at the Sundance Film Festival, Son of Rambow is a hilariously fresh and visually inventive take on friendship, family, film heroes and the death-defying adventures of growing up in the video age. It all begins in 1980s Britain, when young Will Proudfoot, raised in isolation among The Brethren, a puritanical religious sect in which music and TV are strictly forbidden, encounters something beyond his wildest fantasies: a pirated copy of Rambo: First Blood. His virgin viewing of the iconic thriller blows his mind – and rapidly expanding imagination – wide open. Now, Will sets out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, not to mention equally elaborate schemes for creating a movie of total commitment and non-stop thrills while hiding out from The Brethren.
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Landmark Midtown #4 | + add to cal | buy tickets |
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I've seen this twice now and I just love it. It plays out not like a real picture of childhood but like the way you remember your childhood. Everything is heightened in the film just a bit to make it kind of like a waking dream. I'll admit that the sentimentality is laid on pretty thick, especially through the score, and that the movie slows down a bit in the middle, but it's still a wonderful and fun film that reminds me of the best parts of being a kid.
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