"Pride" - brilliantly funny film....

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but take your hankies cos it's also a real weepie. And a true story.

I was 16 in 1984, and this film brought it all back - the music, the clothes, everything was just as I remembered it. I went along thinking it was going to be a trite little film, but it was fantastic.

Definitely recommend it.

Who did Dominic West play?

Thought the guy who played Mark was superb - a v subtle performance. Lovely eyes.

Dominic West played the actor boyfriend of the bookshop owner from Rhyl. He did the big set piece dance in the club.
Sunshine in Leith- yy that's where I'd seen Bromley!
There was one clunking inaccuracy though- at the christening party at the end; I have never seen those front gardens with pampas grass with people on!

Oh yes - he was excellent.

Just got back from the cinema. Very emotional and funny and some terrific performances. We all cried. DS who is 16 hasn't stopped talking about it.

I got together with DH during this time and he was working for the Citizens Advice Bureau in the area so it brought back many memories for us. My dad was very involved in local politics and the unions, although he was a steel worker, he did a lot to support the miners. Our little town had both pits and steelworks then and the steelworkers had been on strike themselves not long before. Virtually every family was affected in some way. And the town has neither pit nor steelworks now.

Loved Dominic West.

I do agree with Remus though, the singing of Bread and Roses jarred a bit with me for some reason.

The Bread & Roses made me cry my eyes out! Different strokes & all that

Oh, my fellow film-lovers, I've seen Pride three times now and lived it each time.

It is amazing, wonderful, joyous, touching, sad, funny, bitter, powerful and I loved every second.

I was 15 in 1984 and can remember fleets of trucks driving past with coal, and people saying the haulage firms would be treated as scabs forever.

The actor Ben Scnezter as Mark Ashton was phenomenal. He was also in the Book Thief, unrecognisable as the same man, a real wonderful piece of casting.

I also cannot wait for the DVD, my son has already asked for it for Christmas, he has seen the film twice now, too.

Another one really looking forward to the DVD. :)

I absolutely loved it. I was 18/19 at the time of the miner's strike, so it was like watching and listening to the soundtrack of my young adulthood. I didn't like the Bread and Roses scene - I thought it was mawkish and out of place, whereas the rest was very believable. What had me in tears was the reading of the lodges as the miners got off the buses. It had me thinking on the one hand about what's been lost with the loss of the strong unionised communities, and on the other hand of the reading of names of the AIDS victims. I thought Ben Schnetzer was terrific.

Just returned from seeing this film, i was 21 in '84..
Yes i enjoyed it, great acting, loved the snippits of music, but also thought it could've been a lot more hard hitting.
It also really upset me - i lost 2 best friends at the time to Aids, they were only 22 and 23, so it brought back strong feelings..
If you weren't old enough at the time to remember what it was like then, i don't think the film did enough to educate how raw and terrifying it all was, although i agree Ben Schnetzer came the closest to conveying those emotions.

I just took the DCs and we all loved it. An amazing film.
I was 19 at the time and remember it all well.

Yes, so much has been lost. I actually came out of there feeling very very angry at Thatcher and what she enabled this country and Europe to become - a sell out to corporate greed.

I went to watch it today, by myself. There was another older lady in the cinema too and at the end she turned around to me and said,' wasn't that wonderful!'
I live in a mining town in the south wales valleys and I was only 3 in '84 but the film DID something to me. I felt so angry and so sad. The destruction of the communities - so, so true.
Brilliant performances by all - I especially like bill nighy. The understated, quietly enraged and suppressed welsh man was spot on and very recognisable.
Brilliant, brilliant film.
I did have something in my eye at the final march scene. 26. So awful :(

I watched this at a preview, with DH. We cried.

I met Mark Ashton tangentially at the time, though it would be arrogant to say we were acquainted.

Gagging for the DVD.

I'm just watching it. I was 17 and the only club I could get into was a gay one. This is my era the music is right up my street.

My favourite film of the year. Absolutely loved it.

I bloody bawled at the end. Fantastic film.