| 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 |
 Brassed Off Sophie Baker/Miramax |
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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