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Son of Rambow
In 1980s England, schoolboys Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) and Lee Carter (Will Poulter) meet by chance in a hallway. During a long English summer, the two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood (1982).
23 July 1973, Stafford, Staffordshire, England, UK
7 June 1969, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
22 July 1964, Amersham, England, UK
21 June 1963, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
1964, London, England, UK
4 May 1923, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
30 October 1914, Hackney, London, England, UK
7 September 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
28 January 1993, England, UK
4 March 1995, Surrey, England, UK
18 April 1974, Poole, Dorset, England, UK
7 July 1984, England, UK
1 April 1997, Islington, London, England, UK
September 08, 2008
A feel-good family flick that doesn't pander to the younger members of the equation.September 05, 2008
This is a winner, a film to which you can safely take your kids and enjoy yourself.September 05, 2008
Waffles between heart-on-its-sleeve candor and winking self-awareness.September 15, 2008
Crammed tight with every kid-pic cliche you can imagine.May 16, 2008
Son of Rambow is an inventive and amusing coming-of-age movie that deftly entwines elements of farce and fantasy, rebelliousness and sentiment, while paying seriously funny tribute to the transcendent power of art.August 24, 2009
Funnier than anything in this vaguely dark comedy is the thought of [Sly] Stallone sitting through it.May 16, 2008
These two boys have, along with writer-director Garth Jennings, turned a coming-of-age story into a treatise on both the fragility of artistic vision and the danger of popular opinion.May 16, 2008
We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated.September 12, 2008
It's a fun idea, but quite awkwardly staged and, in the end, not particularly engaging.May 16, 2008
With apologies to Mr. Stallone, no one would ever argue First Blood was an essential part of any healthy childhood. But the ability to make-believe certainly is.May 16, 2008
After the movie, I imagined its writer-director, Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) being more than a little like Will, and the movie uncannily similar to one of Will's comic epics.May 30, 2008
Jennings is clearly having a wonderful time recreating the fantasies of his youth, but sometimes his perspective get a little too inbred, and the picture suffers for it.