That's great news!  I don't suppose I really understand the classification (it has music in it, but I wouldn't say it's a musical, and it has comedy in it, but also very serious subjects).   But maybe putting it in that category allows it to win without having to compete with the heavy hitters.

Are there really only a couple of us here who have seen it?  Maybe it's one of those films that more people will watch on DVD/Pay-per-view.  I hope so.  I don't think it's a film that needs a big screen so will be a good one to watch at home (with tissues handy).

I'm tempted to buy the album - maybe one for the Christmas list!

Last edited by Liberty (December 11, 2014 7:56 pm)

Thank you! I've been searching for it all the time.
That speech is a disaster. But so cute! 

Love Jimmy.

I apologise in advance, I'm just going to have a little interjection here!
My pal sent me 2 texts overnight.
She'd been at some celeb party and Andrew was there.
She went into great detail on how he commanded the room and the effect he had on people!
But the best part of the story was that he mouthed 'hello' to her across the room- as he remembered meeting her before!

Last edited by besleybean (January 9, 2015 4:56 pm)

Yeah, I was appalled by the US DVD cover.  I got the film from my local library and the Canadian DVD cover is toally different and it doesn't delete anything about gays and lesbians.  Only in America I guess.

But I liked the film.  It was funny but also touching, and lots of good performances.  Andrew was good, of course.  I'm not saying I don't like Moriarty, but it was nice to see him playing a "good guy" for once, though I had to ajust to him being on the good side.  His character, though not the most important, did have a touching storyline and I thought he was good in it.  I also recognized Russell Tovey, who was in The Hounds of Baskervile.  Did you guys catch that?

I recognised him too. And loved the film.

Oh wow, you've just seen it now?!  Isn't it fantastic?  I haven't seen it since it came out.  Maybe time to rewatch it. 

You haven't seen it before, just now? It's one of my favourite films ever, so funny (when the Wales women found the dildo! or them in the gay club) and sooo sad too. When Andrews character Gethin goes back to Wales and visits his mother. Andrew is so sweet in that film.
And Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton are just marvelous in it!
I love Bill Braggs "There's Power in a Union" at the end of the film and the information you get how the gay and lesbian rights got into Labour Party's manifesto.











I knew a bit about the miner strikes and what a "lovely" person Mrs Thatcher was, but I've never heard of this.

Ivy, it wasn't really publicised much at the time, so easy to miss.   I was involved at the time (striking and fundraising for miners, etc.) and didn't hear about it, or at least I don't remember.   I remember reading something about the making of the film - that it came from somebody coming across the video (possibly the one I posted on the last page) and only managing to track down the people because one had an unusual name.    It's a wonderful piece of history and I'm so glad it was "rescued". 

Liberty wrote:

Ivy, it wasn't really publicised much at the time, so easy to miss.   I was involved at the time (striking and fundraising for miners, etc.) and didn't hear about it, or at least I don't remember.   I remember reading something about the making of the film - that it came from somebody coming across the video (possibly the one I posted on the last page) and only managing to track down the people because one had an unusual name.    It's a wonderful piece of history and I'm so glad it was "rescued". 

Yeah I saw a documentation about the real people in the film, very interesting. And all of the actors said they didn't know about the involvement of the Gay/Lesbian community either.