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Raining Stones (1993)

Drama | 90 minutes
3,48 150 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 90 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Ken Loach

Stars: Bruce Jones, Julie Brown and Ricky Tomlinson

IMDb score: 7,3 (5.252)

Releasedate: 9 September 1993

Raining Stones plot

Despite his poverty, Bob would do anything to buy a beautiful dress for his daughter's First Communion. His goal of raising the money is causing him, and his family, more and more problems.

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mrklm

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Ken Loach again makes effective use of authentic locations and non-professional extras to enhance the realism of this tragicomic tale. The story revolves around Bob [Bruce Jones]'s attempts to raise money for his daughter's first communion. His pride prevents him from buying an affordable second-hand dress, but his stubbornness gets him into trouble when he borrows money from a loan shark against his better judgment. Jones' performance is unfortunately uneven, but the film is full of sharp observations and strong supporting roles, and screenwriter Jim Allen cleverly mixes the tragic story with humor, which never becomes heavy-handed.

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Filmkriebel

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For a worker, it's raining stones seven days a week...

Typical Loach (the tenth film I've seen of him), with a raw atmosphere but also with light-hearted, almost comical moments (his recruitment as a bouncer for example), in which the consequences of chronic unemployment in the UK are once again put in the spotlight. Sometimes also quite moralistic with the role of the Catholic Church as shepherd of its sheep, the desperate citizens. Somewhere the comparison between the sheep at the beginning of the film and Bob is quickly drawn, although this may not have been Loach's intention; Bob does everything he can to scrape together the money to buy his daughter a communion dress and gets deeper and deeper into financial debt.

Not an innovative or surprising film by Loach, but his socialist nature ensures that he again stands up passionately for the poor man who gets stuck in the cogs of a poorly oiled economy. I found the ending a bit too easy.

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Fisico

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A tragicomic story from a marginalized working-class neighborhood in some gray English industrial city. You hardly see any chances or opportunities to get ahead in life, besides the much goodwill. Of course, they also set the wrong priorities with the daytime thoughts of the daughter's communion, knowing full well that they actually can't afford it.

And yet the character Bob arouses some sympathy, although you can ask yourself questions about his actions. Loach presents yet another raw picture on the fringes of society. Authentic and unvarnished. Knowing Loach, very socialist in approach.

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