Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 05/02/08 (Limited) Home Video Not Available MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for violence and reckless behavior Running Time 1hour 36 minutes Genre Comedy Director Garth Jennings Writer Garth Jennings Cast Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Anna Wing, Ed Westwick, Eric Sykes Studio Paramount Vantage |
SON OF RAMBO (2008 )
SYNOPSIS
"Son of Rambow" is a hilariously fresh and
visually inventive take on friendship, family, film
heroes and the death-defying adventures of
growing up in the video age. The story takes place
in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is
raised in isolation among The Brethren, a
puritanical religious sect in which music and TV
are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his
first movie, a pirated copy of "Rambo: First Blood"
his imagination is blown wide open. Now, Will sets
out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical
school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action
epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, all
the while hiding out from The Brethren.
When school popularity finally descends on Will
and Lee in the form of, oui, the super-cool French
exchange student, Didier Revol, their remarkable
new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite
literally, to the breaking point.
Filmed in a creatively mad-cap, homemade style
with a mostly amateur cast and a wry,
comic-tinged nostalgia, creative visionaries Garth
Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, a.k.a. Hammer &
Tongs ("Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"),
manage to capture both the agony and the giddy
ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with humor,
poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic
panache.--© Paramount Vantage
"Son of Rambow" is a hilariously fresh and
visually inventive take on friendship, family, film
heroes and the death-defying adventures of
growing up in the video age. The story takes place
in 1980s Britain, where young Will Proudfoot is
raised in isolation among The Brethren, a
puritanical religious sect in which music and TV
are strictly forbidden. When Will encounters his
first movie, a pirated copy of "Rambo: First Blood"
his imagination is blown wide open. Now, Will sets
out to join forces with the seemingly diabolical
school bully, Lee Carter, to make their own action
epic, devising wildly creative, on-the-fly stunts, all
the while hiding out from The Brethren.
When school popularity finally descends on Will
and Lee in the form of, oui, the super-cool French
exchange student, Didier Revol, their remarkable
new friendship and precious film are pushed, quite
literally, to the breaking point.
Filmed in a creatively mad-cap, homemade style
with a mostly amateur cast and a wry,
comic-tinged nostalgia, creative visionaries Garth
Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, a.k.a. Hammer &
Tongs ("Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"),
manage to capture both the agony and the giddy
ecstasy of a camcorder childhood with humor,
poignancy and a rousing dose of cinematic
panache.--© Paramount Vantage
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