Son of Rambow (2007)

Directed by

Garth Jennings

Genre

drama film, comedy film, coming-of-age film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, France, United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 493 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two British schoolboys become unlikely friends one summer in the 1980s. They team up to make their own homemade sequel to the Rambo movie First Blood.

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What happens

Son of Rambow is a 2007 comedy film written and directed by Garth Jennings, inspired by First Blood. The film premiered on 22 January 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 51st BFI London Film Festival. Son of Rambow was released in the United Kingdom on 4 April 2008 and opened in limited release in the United States on 2 May 2008. Set over a summer in Thatcher's Britain, the film is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by First Blood. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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