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Brassed Off 107 minutes, UK/USA (1996), 15

(3.0)

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Pete Postlethwaite in Brassed Off

Ewan McGregor, Tara Fitzgerald and Pete Postlethwaite star in this bittersweet comedy about music and the right to work. A Yorkshire colliery is faced with closure and so is the town's brass band

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Brassed Off: The impact of Conservative Party energy policy on a small Yorkshire mining town may not sound like fertile ground for comedy. Nor indeed is the trombone a likely instrument for political dissent...

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