Son of Rambow
Directed by Garth Jennings. UK. PG-13. 96 min.
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"Until it dissolves into routine sentimentality, Son of Rambow proves a welcome corrective to the legion of post-Rushmore indies defined by their precious quirkiness and pathos. …this Brit import employs its affectations less for look-at-me egotistical purposes than in service of its story's core emotions. At a U.K. elementary school in the mid-'80s, Will (Bill Milner), a quiet kid whose family belongs to an ascetic Plymouth Brethren religious community, is conned by delinquent Lee (Will Poulter) into working as the stuntman for a homemade movie he intends to submit to a BBC film contest. Although not permitted by his faith to watch television, Will is exposed—through a bootleg VHS copy made by Lee—to First Blood, an experience that ignites the young boy's already abundant artistic impulses (whose previous outlet was flip-book animation and cartoon doodles) and sends him running through the countryside ecstatically screaming and play-punching and kicking the air." (Nick Schager, Slant.com)
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