Brassed Off

...the acting is top-notch. McGregor breathes life into a less-than-interesting role, Fitzgerald shines and Tompkinson is excellent as a man on the brink of cracking up. But Postlethwaite takes top honours as his dad...

...a sweet film with a lot of anger at its core. The writer and director, Mark Herman, obviously believes the Tory energy decisions were inspired by the fact that coal miners voted Labour while nuclear power barons were Conservative.

Robust, combative, big-souled, and unapologetically maudlin, Mark Herman's 'Brassed Off!' draws its blood from the same universal workingman's heart as the English coal-mining culture it portrays.

Brassed Off! is a traditional feel-good motion picture with an element of social commentary thrown in for good measure.

...[a] Yorkshire-set tale of political perfidy and the triumph of the common man...