Son of Rambow
Son of Rambow is a British comedy about Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) a boy being brought among a small religious sect that makes Luddites look hip. It’s the ‘80’s when home video was new and smoking bylaws were in the far distant future. Despite his cloistered upbringing it’s clear that Will has a very creative and artistic side which runs contrary to the families beliefs. He’s not allowed any modern distractions, not even watching classroom documentaries videos. Sitting in the hallway during one screening proves to be an awakening for him as he ends up shoring the space with Lee Carter (Will Poulter) a student just tossed from another classroom for being disruptive. When Lee realizes how naive Will is he exploits the situation by talking him into doing foolhardy stunts for the dream video he’s creating. Lee comes from upper middle class means but has been abandoned by his mother to be brought up by his abusive brother who forces Lee to partake in small scale illegal activities. One is pirating videos and it’s here that Will is exposed to the one man wrecking crew called John Rambo. Suddenly Will has a channel for all his creative juices. A subtext begins with the arrival of French exchange students, one of whom is an effeminate but trendy pied piper and the two stories merge with the sudden desire for the entire student body to be involved in the film. Even for a flight of fantasy a lot of the setups are far fetched but Son of Rambow will still leave you with some genuine laughs ad a warm heart.