Son Of Rambow
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Mon 23 June 2008 // 20:00
(Mon 23rd / 8pm / £4/3)
(Tue 24th / 7pm / £2ttt)
(Garth Jennings / 2007 / UK / 35mm / 96 mins / Cert 12A)
Set on a long English summer in the early 80's, Son Of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and filmmaking. When school tearaway Lee Carter decides to make a camcorder film for kids TV show ‘Screen Test’, he ends up engaging the talents of religious misfit Will. The resulting film, an unofficial sequel to Stallone’s iconic ‘First Blood’, becomes a rite-of-passage for the two boys. Deceptively simple, this film is more than a trot through pastoral nostalgia – detailing the tough ways in which kids are sometimes forced to grow up