UK filmmakers Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith's sentimental coming-of-age story is a quirky charmer about two youngsters making their own DIY version of FIRST BLOOD.
Set in suburban England in the mid-1980s, the film hinges on the unlikely friendship that springs up between elementary school classmates Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) and Lee Carter (Will Poulter). Skinny, quiet Will and his younger sister, Jess (Tallulah Evans), are being raised by their widowed mother (Jessica Stevenson) as members of the Bretheren, an austere religious sect that shuns television, popular music and, of course, movies as dangerous temptations. Will is lucky he's even allowed ...
Released:
2008
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
96 mins