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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 2007
Country: UK, France, Germany
Runtime: 96
Rating: 6.6 (0)
Languages: English, French
Director: Garth Jennings
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
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Writing by: Garth Jennings – (written by)

Produced by: Bristol Baughan – executive producer
Christian Baute – associate producer
Benjamin Goldhirsh – executive producer
Nick Goldsmith – producer
Hengameh Panahi – executive producer
Jane Robertson – line producer

Cast: Neil Dudgeon – Brother Joshua
Bill Milner – Will Proudfoot
Jessica Hynes – Mary Proudfoot (as Jessica Stevenson)
Anna Wing – Grandma
Will Poulter – Lee Carter
Tallulah Evans – Jess Proudfoot
Emilie Chesnais – French Teacher
Paul Ritter – Geography Teacher
Finola McMahon – Gail Graham
Rachel Mureatroyd – Marie Plante
Taylor Richardson – David Smart

Music: Joby Talbot
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Plot Outline: Set on a long English summer in the early 80s, Son Of Rambow is a comedy about friendship, faith and the weird business of growing up.
Plot: SON OF RAMBOW is the name of the home movie made by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions. Set on a long English summer in the early 80s, SON OF RAMBOW is a comedy about friendship, faith and the tough business of growing up. We see the story through the eyes of Will, the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. The Brethren regard themselves as Gods chosen ones and their strict moral code means that Will has never been allowed to mix with the other worldlies, listen to music or watch TV, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and maker of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirate copy of Rambo: First Blood and from that moment Wills mind is blown wide open and hes easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters diabolical home movie. Wills imaginative little brain is not only given chance to flourish in the world of film making, but is also very handy when it comes to dreaming up elaborate schemes to keep his partnership with Lee Carter a secret from the Brethren community. Will and Carters complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious rollercoaster that eventually leads to true friendship. They start to make a name for themselves at school as movie makers but when popularity descends on them in the form of the Pied Piper-esque French exchange student, Didier Revol, their unique friendship and their precious film are pushed, quite literally, to breaking point.

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Watch right till the end of the credits to hear a few additional lines of dialogue between Will and Carter.

Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Factual errors: When Will watches the pirated version of First Blood (1982) that Lee illegally filmed in the cinema, we see the cinema-curtains open on the films first-credit. All films screened in British cinemas at that time would legally have to start with the British Board of Film Classifications classification certificate directly before the start of the film.

Trivia: There are 18 entries in the trivia list – like these:

• Peter Jackson approached Guillermo del Toro to direct Halo (2009), and even though del Toro considered it, he turned the offer down so he could direct this sequel. Also, Del Toro turned down I Am Legend (2007), One Missed Call (2008), and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) for the same reason.
• Revolution Studios was originally set to produce this sequel but had to pull out once Sony decided they no longer wanted to fund Revolution Studios. Sony put the rights up for sale since they felt Hellboy wasnt a profitable franchise for them. Universal felt differently and bought the rights to make the sequel immediately.
• There are several shots in the movie showing a worn movie marquee advertising a film called “See You Next n sday.” The inclusion of the phrase “See you next Wednesday” is a trademark of director John Landis (he has incorporated it into nearly all of the movies and many of the music videos he has directed). Landis, in turn, took the line from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).