Pride (2014)

The Very Best

8.1

Movie

France, UK
English
Comedy, Drama
2014
MATTHEW WARCHUS
Abram Rooney, Adam Ewan, Alexander Perkins
120 min

What it's about

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

The take

It’s 1984 and miners in England are on strike against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s plans to close pits. Their cause has unlikely appeal for Mark Ashton, a human rights activists who decides to take a group of people who had joined an early Gay Pride parade in London to rural England to show support for the (often socially-conservative) miners.

You can see how things might go wrong, but in this case they didn’t. This heartwarming tale is based on a true story. An easy, funny, and relevant movie about the bond that oppression brings to the oppressed. Super earnest, too.

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a humane human film that captures the homophobic Britain in the 80’s well.

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