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Son of Rambow is a french film of genre Drama directed by Garth Jennings released in USA on 23 may 2008 with Bill Milner

Son of Rambow (2007)

Son of Rambow
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Released in USA 23 may 2008
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginFrance
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating69% 3.4980253.4980253.4980253.4980253.498025

Son of Rambow is a 2007 British-French-German comedy-drama film written and directed by Garth Jennings. The film premiered on 22 January 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 51st BFI London Film Festival. Son of Rambow was released in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2008 and opened in limited release in the United States on 2 May 2008. Set during an English summer during the early 1980s, the film is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by First Blood.

Synopsis

Will (Bill Milner) is quiet and shy, and comes from a family that belongs to the strict Plymouth Brethren church. Will is forbidden to watch films or television and is made to leave his classroom when the teacher puts on a documentary. In the corridor, he meets Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the worst-behaved boy in school, thrown out of another class for bad behaviour. They accidentally break a fish bowl in the corridor; Lee volunteers to take the blame, pretending that the punishment is torture, in exchange for Will's watch, which belonged to his dead father. Moreover, Lee demands that Will performs the stunts in a film Lee is making with home video equipment owned by his bullying older brother, Lawrence (Ed Westwick), which Lawrence uses in his video pirating enterprise. He intends to enter the Screen Test Young Film-Makers' Competition.

Actors

Bill Milner

(Will Proudfoot)
Will Poulter

(Lee Carter)
Jules Sitruk

(Didier Revol)
Jessica Hynes

(Mary Proudfoot)
Adam Godley

(Brethren Leader)
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