A mid-1990s film about a coal mine being closed? Pure science fiction — no politician would ever call for such a vital industry to be bankrupted, particularly in a recession, right?
Click over to MidnightBlue for a look at Brassed Off!, a remarkably prescient 1996 movie.
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Trivia bit: Certain spoken samples from the Chumbawamba album Tubthumpin are taken from the film.
Thanks for posting my review
Oh, have you tried the Eye-Fi SD card yet?