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Raining Stones
Why this pick
Loach again finds bruised comedy and solidarity in a cash-strapped working-class community, with small humiliations and everyday schemes carrying both political weight and humane warmth.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Stevie, fresh from prison in Scotland, finds a job on a London construction site. The working conditions are poor and most of the men are working under aliases, due to immigration status and to not conflict with their "signing on" for unemployment benefits. Some coworkers help Stevie secure housing, squatting in a council estate. Then Stevie meets Susan, from Ireland, who's struggling to be a professional singer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Robert Carlyle
Stevie
Jimmy Coleman
Shem
Ricky Tomlinson
Larry
Peter Mullan
Jake
Ade Sapara
Fiaman
Derek Young
Desmonde
Bill Moores
Smurph
Willie Ross
Gus Siddon