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- Obsessive QuestParents and ChildrenDown on Your LuckHopesLife is a BitchMind and SoulSocietyFamily Relations more...
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- DramaRealismComedy
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- 20th Century90s
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- EnglandEuropeUrban
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Raining Stones, 1993
English
UK
Profile of Raining Stones
Raining Stones can be described as sincere, touching, and gloomy. The plot revolves around being down on your luck, an obsessive quest, and hopes. The main genres are drama and comedy. In terms of style, Raining Stones features realism. In approach, it is realistic. It is set, at least in part, in an urban environment. Raining Stones is located in England. It takes place in the 1990s. The movie has received attention for being a Cannes festival winner, essential viewing, and critically acclaimed. Note that Raining Stones involves profanity.
Summary of Raining Stones
Raining Stones, in its quietly observant, almost documentary-like style, is typical of director Ken Loach's understated approach to his left-leaning politics. It stars Bruce Jones as Bob, a man in an impoverished town in the north of England, struggling to survive on the dole while hustling for any odd jobs he can find, or otherwise pushing the envelope with edgy, foolhardy gigs, such as stealing sheep with his friend Tommy (Ricky Tomlinson) with the hope of reselling them--and when that plan fails, repackaging them as mutton for door-to-door sales. While he's looking the other way, his van is stolen, an event typical of Bob's chronic bad luck. When his wife, Anne (Julie Brown), reminds him of their daughter, Coleen's (Gemma Phoenix), forthcoming first communion, Bob insists that she will have a new dress, although the parish priest, Father Barry (Tom Hickey), advises him that a secondhand dress would be a wiser choice. Bob's quest to raise the money for the dress has surprising repercussions. A humane, extremely moving yet clear-eyed portrait of the rigors of working-class life, the film is devoid of sentimentality, as are its stoic characters. The soundtrack features music by the Police's Stewart Copeland.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 2 October 1993 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
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as Bob
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