Brassed Off

1996

Comedy / Drama / Music / Romance

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 79% · 48 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 22066 22.1K

northern england province brass band music competition yorkshire

Plot summary

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

Director

Mark Herman Photo
Mark Herman

Top cast

Ewan McGregor Photo
Ewan McGregor as Andy
Kenneth Colley Photo
Kenneth Colley as Greasley
Stephen Moore Photo
Stephen Moore as McKenzie
Adrian Hood Photo
Adrian Hood as Heavy 2
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
988.25 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 8
1.79 GB
1918*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 47 min
Seeds 33

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Cinema_Fan 8 / 10

The Yorkshire valleys are alive with the sound of music.

Reviewed by climbingtuba2 8 / 10

Banding - more than just a hobby

I just want to correct a couple of things that the previous reviewer makes about the film.Firstly, from a musical point of view, Gloria does not enter the Grimley bandroom with an obligato cornet, it's a flugelhorn.The fact that a woman has entered the band room is important. For a long time, the brass band was the domain of men. Women weren't allowed to play in the bands and indeed, this is still the case today in two of the biggest names in the banding world.Underpinning all this is the fact that the film is (at least) semi-biographical. The events unfolding in the film mirror in no small way the same events which befell the Grimethorpe pit in 1992, and impacted on the world-famous Grimethorpe Colliery band. Thatcher's Britain did result in the pit closing down, and threatened the band's future. The band did take the stage at the National Final, and so the reason that the band don't turn professional is because there is no room in the banding movement for a professional band.For a point of information, there are 4 basses in a Brass Band, 2 Eb and 2 Bb (not 2 or 3). Oh yes, and bandsmen most certainly do carry there instruments through the street without a case, especially bass players.On a slightly different point, Phil does not have a gambling habit. He is still paying off the loan that he took out in 1982 to cover the loss of earnings because "suspended I were. 18 b****** months it took that lot to sort it out. 18 b***** months on strike pay. That's how big a f***** deal it is mate."
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