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Brassed Off| Director/Writer: | Mark Herman | | Director of Photography: | Andy Collins | | Editor: | Mike Ellis | | Music: | Trevor Jones | | Production Designer: | Don Taylor | | Producer: | Steve Abbott | | Miramax; R; 107 minutes | | Release: | 5/97 | | Cast: | Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor and Stephen Tompkinson |
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Though contrived and maudlin, Brassed Off offers some knee-slapping laughs and a pointed commentary on a Thatcherite policy that threw scores of coal miners out of work. The folks in Grimley, a fictional British coal-mining town in 1992, are justifiably aroused that their town is a target of the government's pit-closure program. The town's pride, the Grimley Colliery Brass Band, holds the community together and lifts its spirits in the face of desolation. Postlethwaite gives an in-your-face, passionate performance as the bandleader stricken with black-lung disease.
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