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God's Own Country
Why this pick
Shares The Goob’s raw rural English setting, economic confinement and emotionally guarded young protagonist, while finding tenderness amid hard physical work and family pressure.
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MOVIE2014 1h 26m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
Its abrasive black-and-white texture and coastal working-class tension echo The Goob’s sense of a young life hemmed in by place, money and volatile family dynamics.
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Why this pick
A brooding British rural drama in which oppressive family bonds and a charged new relationship create an unsettling, heat-haze atmosphere akin to The Goob.
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Why this pick
Paddy Considine’s harsh but humane study of rage, abuse and unexpected connection has the same willingness as The Goob to sit with damaged people without softening them.
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Ray & Liz
Why this pick
This uncompromising British social-realist family portrait shares The Goob’s close attention to poverty, neglect and strained domestic life, rendered with stark, intimate observation.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
"Goob" Taylor (Liam Walpole) is a school leaver with an abusive stepfather, trapped in rural poverty in Norfolk. He clashes with brutal stock car racer Gene Womack for his mother's attention and falls for a foreign field worker.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Sienna Guillory
Janet
Marama Corlett
Eva
Sean Harris
Womack
Hannah Spearritt
Mary