Posts Tagged ‘working-class’

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Comedy | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Barrymore, Drew | Zahn, Steve | Garcia, Adam | Murphy, Brittany | Woods, James | Bracco, Lorraine
Directors: Penny Marshall
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Seriocomic story based on the memoir by Beverly Donofrio, the movie follows a young woman who finds her life radically altered by an event from her teen years. Born in 1950, Beverly grew up bright and ambitious in a working-class neighborhood in Connecticut; her father was a tough but good-hearted cop who listened to his daughter’s problems, and her mother was a nervous woman eager to imagine the worst. From an early age, Beverly displays a keen intelligence and an interest in literature, and dreams of going to college in New York and becoming a writer. However, she also develops an early interest in boys, and at 15 finds herself madly in love with a boy from her high school. However, an attempt to get his attention leads to an embarassing incident at a party, and Ray, a sweet but thick-headed 18-year-old, steps forward to defend her. Beverly and Ray end up making out, and after one thing leads to another, Beverly discovers she’s pregnant. Telling Ray is only marginally less difficult than informing her parents, and at 16, Beverly is a wife and mother. Against the odds, Beverly is determined to still finish high school and go on to college, but that goal becomes more difficult with time, especially after Beverly’s marriage begins to fall apart. Ray tries to do the right thing but has trouble holding a job, and becomes addicted to heroin.

Nil by Mouth (1997)

Monday, August 4th, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Winstone, Ray | Creed-Miles, Charlie | Morrison, Jon | Foreman, Jamie | Sweeney, Steve | Rowley, Terry | Miller, Sam | Bromfield, Gerry | Maskell, Neil | Golder, Sid | Blundell, John | Hudaverdi, Kenan | Nelson, Everton | Fox, Ronnie | Carey, Dan
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The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy’s mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.

Till Death Us Do Part (1969)

Friday, April 4th, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Mitchell, Warren | Nichols, Dandy | Stubbs, Una | Booth, Anthony | Redmond, Liam | Maynard, Bill | Blessed, Brian | Kydd, Sam | Thornton, Frank | Sylvestre, Cleo | Lancaster, Ann | Robbins, Michael | Grant, Bob | Jordan, Jack | Evans, Edward
Directors: Cohen, Norman
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The film version of ‘”Till Death Do Us Part” (1965)’ . tells the story of Alf Garnett and his family living through the London Blitz.

On the Buses (1971)

Monday, March 31st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Varney, Reg | Hare, Doris | Robbins, Michael | Karen, Anna | Lewis, Stephen | Grant, Bob | Lawrence, Andrea | Ashton, Pat | Oulton, Brian | Cundell, Pamela | Coombs, Pat | Richard, Wendy | Madden, Peter | Lodge, David | Grogan, Brenda
Directors: Booth, Harry
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Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it… just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of no overtime and, therefore, less wages, he joins forces with his long time work colleague Jack to sabotage the new female employees.

Steptoe and Son (1972)

Friday, March 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Brambell, Wilfrid | Corbett, Harry H. | Seymour, Carolyn | Howard, Arthur | Maddern, Victor | Griffiths, Fred | Heath, Joan | McNaughton, Fred | Satton, Lon | Fyffe, Patrick | Smart, Patsy | Reid, Mike | Mango, Alec | Da Costa, Michael | Box, Enys
Directors: Owen, Cliff
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Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. But Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper. Fine, but he marries her and takes her home Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.

Full Monty, The (1997)

Monday, January 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: UK
Actors: Carlyle, Robert | Addy, Mark | Snape, William | Huison, Steve | Wilkinson, Tom | Barber, Paul | Speer, Hugo | Sharp, Lesley | Woof, Emily | Costello, Deirdre | Butterworth, Paul | Hill, Dave | Jones, Bruce | Livingston, Andrew | Dhillon, Vinny
Directors: Cattaneo, Peter
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Six unemployed steel workers, inspired by the Chippendale’s dancers, form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” - total nudity.

Fracture (2007)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hopkins, Anthony | Gosling, Ryan | Strathairn, David | Pike, Rosamund | Davidtz, Embeth | Burke, Billy | Curtis, Cliff | Shaw, Fiona | Gunton, Bob | Josh Stamberg | Berkeley, Xander | Kazan, Zoe | Scott, Judith | Cervantes, Gary | Burchard, Petrea
Directors: Hoblit, Gregory
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

Spider (2002)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | France | UK
Actors: Fiennes, Ralph | Richardson, Miranda | Byrne, Gabriel | Redgrave, Lynn | Neville, John | Hall, Bradley | Reineke, Gary | Craig, Philip | Saunders, Cliff | Ellis, Tara | Stockbridge, Sara | Whybrow, Arthur | Duffett, Nicola | Nightingale, Jake | Egan, Alison
Directors: Cronenberg, David
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Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed “Spider” by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.

All or Nothing (2002)

Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Spall, Timothy | Manville, Lesley | Garland, Alison | Corden, James | Sheen, Ruth | Bailey, Marion | Jesson, Paul | Kelly, Sam | Hunter, Kathryn | Hawkins, Sally | Coker, Helen | Daniel Mays | Crompton, Ben | Wilfort, Robert | McDonald, Gary
Directors: Leigh, Mike
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Penny’s love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket. Their daughter Rachel cleans in a home for elderly people, and their son Rory is unemployed and aggressive. The joy has gone out of Phil’s and Penny’s life, but when an unexpected tragedy occurs, they are brought together to rediscover their love. All or Nothing is set on a London working-class housing estate over a long weekend, and also tells the stories of a range of Phil and Penny’s neighbors, some of whom become involved in the family’s lives, and all of whom experience an emotional journey.