Submarine (2010)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 97 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States
Directed by: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Craig Roberts, Yasmin Paige and Sally Hawkins
IMDb score:
7,3 (101.985)
Releasedate: 18 March 2011
Submarine plot
"A comedy that doesn't let principles stand in the way of progress."
We meet fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate. In his mind he is a genius, in reality he is socially unpredictable and unpopular. This summer, his goal is to lose his virginity and save his parents' marriage. His mother is about to run off with her neighbor.
Actors and actresses
Oliver Tate
Jordana Bevan
Jill Tate
Lloyd Tate
Graham Purvis
Mr. Davey
Chips
Mark Pritchard
Zoe Preece
Keiron
Reviews & comments
timbo_
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- 13116 messages
- 3919 votes
Movie with a high Mr. Nobody effect. It all looks fine and the attention to the design and nice visual finds is great. Too bad it seems so forced. Director Ayoade comes to the fore far too emphatically and forgets to touch the viewer. The protagonists don't help either. Their stoic demeanor and expressionless faces make sympathy particularly difficult. Submarine therefore remains a film with interesting visual finds that just ripple along and never come loose. A typical example of a film where style over substance irritates.
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chevy93
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- 12777 messages
- 1361 votes
I read terms like Coming or Age and I don't understand much of that. It suggests that it would be about the development of a main character, but in my opinion Submarine is NOT about that. I think Ayoade has focused on seeing the world from the eyes of an adolescent with a very refined sense of black humor.
Richard Ayoade is a very comical person and hearing Oliver speak is like hearing Ayoade speak for myself. Slightly absurd, eloquent and above all very fast. Without appearing pretentious, Submarine distinguishes itself from flat, average coming of age films. Right, because Oliver's development is not central.
The clumsy, almost embarrassing atmosphere that is created is very recognisable, but it is portrayed in such a dry way that it is not painful, but funny. And that is Submarine in my eyes, a sequence of scenes taken from life; blown up into awkward, ridiculous scenes without ever feeling cheap.
Very clever debut.
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Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Oliver Tate is a somewhat strange bird. Reading dictionaries is one of his favorite pastimes and he is not exactly Mister Popular at school. The opening scene alone immediately puts me in the mood with Oliver fantasizing how his surroundings would react upon his death. Very nice part by Craig Roberts.
His search for a girlfriend to lose her virginity is fun, all the more so because Yasmin Paige also plays a strange but good role.
The subplot with Oliver's parents is also nice. The bizarre characters - but also those of some schoolmates - never go over the top of eccentricity. Furthermore, the humor is successful, nice and dry British and the setting and atmosphere is excellent. It never gets boring.
Submarine is a fresh, entertaining coming-of-age dipped in a British eighties sauce that looks good. Nice to have seen once, although it is nowhere memorable.
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