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The Full Monty
Why this pick
Shares Brassed Off’s wry, compassionate portrait of working-class men facing industrial decline, finding bruised pride and communal resilience through an unlikely collective performance.
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MOVIE1996 1h 47m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Keep the feeling.
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Why this pick
Ken Loach brings the same clear-eyed anger about privatisation and threatened livelihoods, balancing workplace banter with the human cost borne by a tight-knit group.
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Pride
Why this pick
Its funny, emotionally generous ensemble turns a miners’ strike into a story of solidarity, culture-clash and collective defiance, with the uplift earned rather than sentimental.
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Billy Elliot
Why this pick
Set amid the same mining-strike pressures, it pairs family strain and economic insecurity with art as a fiercely hopeful outlet, mixing blunt social realism with emotional release.
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Little Voice
Why this pick
Mark Herman again finds tenderness and sharp humour in a northern English community, where music becomes an escape route from disappointment, domestic tension and stalled aspirations.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Gloria Mullins has been sent to her home town of Grimley to determine the profitability of the pit for the management of British Coal. She also plays the flugelhorn, and is allowed to play with the local British brass band after playing Concierto de Aranjuez with them. The band is made up of miners from whom she must conceal her purpose. She renews a childhood romance with Andy Barrow, which soon leads to complications. Andy is bitter about the programme of pit closures and determined to fight on, but he is also realistic about the circumstances and predicts a 4-to-1 majority for closure and redundancy. When Andy realises that Gloria is working for management, he accuses her of naïvety for thinking that the Coal Board is considering whether the pit has any viable future and argues that the decision to close Grimley would have been taken years earlier. It is later revealed, during a confrontation between Gloria and the management of the colliery, that the decision to close the colliery had been made two years previously, and that this was to have gone ahead regardless of the findings of her report; the report was simply a public relations exercise to placate the miners and members of the public sympathetic to their plight.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tara Fitzgerald
Gloria
Ewan McGregor
Andy Barrow
Pete Postlethwaite
Danny
Melanie Hill
Sandra
Sue Johnston
Vera
Stephen Tompkinson
Phil
Sally Sheridan
Ward Sister (as Sally Adams)
Peter Martin
Ernie