NOVEMBER 15: PRIDE
Dir: Matthew Warchus UK 2014 120 mins 14A
Principal Cast: Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Considine, George MacKay, Faye Marsay, Ben Schnetzer, Dominic West
In 1984 Britain, a ragtag band of activists from London’s queer
community form an unlikely, anti-Thatcherite alliance with striking
Welsh miners, in this hilarious and inspirational comedy-drama. By 1984,
new-wave music had taken over the clubs, Thatcher's
government was battling mining unions, and London's queer communities
were perfecting artful activism. Into that mix walks Mark. Out, proud,
and always ready for a righteous battle, he can't accept that any one
form of oppression should outrank another. Overcoming
the reluctance of his ragtag band of friends — who would mostly rather
party than protest — he brings them together to form Lesbians and Gays
Support the Miners. But do the miners want this kind of support? Pride
is at its most outrageously funny when the LGSM
activists crash into small-town South Wales in their brightly painted
communal bus. Imelda Staunton is wonderful here as the hard-working
Welsh woman whose support group holds the community together, while
Paddy Considine plays a forward-thinking union organizer
and the inimitable Bill Nighy takes a subtle role as the local pub
historian. Their encounters with the misfits and rabble-rousers who make
up the LGSM give Pride its comedy and its heart. Some in the mining
village have to get over their homophobia. Some of
the gay activists have to get over themselves.
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