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Brassed Off (1996) is a British film written and directed by Mark Herman. The film is very dark comedy about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit. The soundtrack for the film was provided by The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and the plot is based on Grimethorpe's own struggles against pit closures. The film is scoffed at by some in the brass band world, but is generally very positively received for its role in promoting brass bands and their music. Image File history File links BrassedOff_G1_C234. ...
Pete Postlethwaite (born February 7, 1945) is a British actor. ...
Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967) is a British actress most widely known for her film roles in Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off . ...
Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor (born 31 March 1971 in Crieff, Perthshire) is a Scottish film actor who has had significant success in both mainstream and art house movies. ...
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1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
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Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Selby Abbey, 2000 The Grimethorpe Colliery Band is a brass band formed in 1917 as a leisure activity for the workers at the colliery. ...
The film stars Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald and Ewan McGregor. The film was well-received as a comedy, and by some as a political statement about the state of traditional coal mining communities in Britain. Released shortly before the 1997 UK general election which removed the Conservative government of the past 18 years, it was a timely and accessible piece of propaganda. The film has also become an infamous example of how not to imitate the Yorkshire dialect and accent. The only accents in the film that were close to accurate were those of Stephen Tompkinson and a few minor characters. Pete Postlethwaite (born February 7, 1945) is a British actor. ...
Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967) is a British actress most widely known for her film roles in Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off . ...
Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor (born 31 March 1971 in Crieff, Perthshire) is a Scottish film actor who has had significant success in both mainstream and art house movies. ...
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// Introduction The Yorkshire dialect and accent refers to the varieties of English used in the northern English county of Yorkshire. ...
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The film was particuarly well-received in former mining communities, who felt it accurately reflected the suffering they faced due to the attack on their industry by the Thatcher and Major governments. It is set during the reign of Major, when Michael Heseltine presided over a huge programme of pit closures, as President for the Board of Trade. The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British stateswoman. ...
The Right Honourable Sir John Major, KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher as Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before succeeding Thatcher as Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United...
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Background The films is set in "Grimley" in the mid-1990s — a thinly disguised version of the real South Yorkshire village of Grimethorpe, which had been named as the poorest village in Britain two years earlier by the European Union. Nearby towns and villages, such as Hemsworth, Fitzwilliam, Thurnscoe and Goldthorpe, were also identified as in need of serious aid. Indeed, the soundtrack for the film was recorded by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and the story roughly reflects Grimethorpe Colliery Band's history. South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. ...
Grimethorpe is a large village which is part of the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. ...
Hemsworth is a small town on the edge of West Yorkshire in the Wakefield district. ...
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Thurnscoe is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. ...
Goldthorpe is a village in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. ...
The miners in the film put up little resistance to the coal board's harsh redundancy policy. This can understood in the context of the 1984 UK miners' strike, which effectively destroyed trade union power in British coal mining industry. The film depicts the spirit of hopelessness 10 years after the strike, and the miners attempts to find redemption. An ongoing piece of symbolism in the first half of the film is the lack of conversation between one miner and his wife, until she finally criticises him harshly for not making a show of resistance against the closure, when he had been so full of fight in 1984. The miners strike of 1984-5 was a major piece of industrial action affecting the British coal industry. ...
Story Gloria (Tara Fitzgerald) has been sent to her old hometown of Grimley to determine the profitability of the pit. She also plays the flugelhorn brilliantly, and is allowed to play with the local brass band, made up of miners from whom she must conceal her purpose. She renews a childhood romance with Andy (Ewan McGregor), which soon leads to complications. Tara Fitzgerald (born September 18, 1967) is a British actress most widely known for her film roles in Sirens (opposite Hugh Grant) and the 1996 film Brassed Off . ...
Ewan McGregor Ewan McGregor (born 31 March 1971 in Crieff, Perthshire) is a Scottish film actor who has had significant success in both mainstream and art house movies. ...
The passionate band leader Danny (Pete Postlethwaite) finds he is fighting a losing battle to keep the rest of the band members committed. His son Phil (Stephen Tompkinson) is badly in debt and becomes a clown for children's parties, but fails to prevent his wife and children walking out on him. As his father Danny is hospitalised from a mining-related disease, Phil has a breakdown in front of a group of children (one of the darker scenes of the film), and later attempts suicide. Pete Postlethwaite (born February 7, 1945) is a British actor. ...
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As the coal mine itself is finally closed, the band finds success in a brass band competition. Despite several set-backs, the band eventually reaches the final at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The film's climax attaches a significance to this seemingly small victory in the face of their greater troubles — the miners have rediscovered the hope in the future that they lost 10 years ago. Royal Albert Hall The Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences is an arts venue dedicated to Queen Victorias husband and consort, Prince Albert. ...
The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ...
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