Posted on 09/05/08
Growing up with Rambo and Depeche Mode
Son of RambowWritten and directedby Garth JenningsStarring Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon and Jules SitrukClassification: PG***Few movies have captured the intoxicating effect of pop culture on kids better than Son of Rambow, a British coming-of-age comedy set in Thatcher's England. The besotted youngsters in question, Lee and Will, are emotionally undernourished 12-year-olds attending a small-town middle school. Will belongs to a Christian sect that forbids all forms of merriment, movies being a particular no-no. Lee, meanwhile, lives in a gloomy manor that makes us think his name might be a tribute to Mr. Tall, Dark and Gruesome, Christopher Lee of Hammer horror-movie fame.
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