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Son of Rambow (2007)

PG-13 (US) | UK, France, Germany, USA | English, French | 96 min

Directed by: Garth Jennings

"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 1980s, "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 God's '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 Will's mind is blown wide open and he's easily convinced to be the stuntman in Lee Carters' diabolical home movie. Will's 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 Carter's complete disregard for consequences and innocent ambition means that the process of making their film is a glorious roller-coaster 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.

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Cast & Crew

Garth Jennings

Director

Bill Milner

Will Proudfoot

Will Poulter

Lee Carter

Jessica Hynes

Mary Proudfoot

Anna Wing

Grandma

Neil Dudgeon

Joshua

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Release Date

USA

(Sundance Film Festival)

2007-01-22

USA

(Newport Beach International Film Festival)

2007-04-26

USA

(Seattle International Film Festival)

2007-05-24

Also Known As (A.K.A.)

Son of Rambow

(Original title)

El hijo de Rambow

Argentina (dvd title)

Son of Rambow

Australia

Parent Guide

A young boy is thrown out of a slow-moving jeep driven by a teenage boy and falls into a pit of oil and sludge and calls for help, but the driver runs away; the boy is pulled out as the building begins to crumble, rocks and cement fall and one boy is trapped under a large block of broken concrete and smaller rocks (we do not see any blood).

In a scene from Rambo a man is shown holding a large knife to a man's throat in a close-up and threatening to kill him, saying, "I swear to God I'll kill you."

In a scene from Rambo a man is told that he will need 200 body bags if his 200 men go up against Rambo.

Scenes from Rambo with machine gun fire and flames from bombs are shown.

We see a boy at home and his adult brother's friends knock him to the floor and punch and slap him briefly and the scene ends.

A boy throws a ball down a school hall and hits another boy in the face; the two boys scuffle briefly, knock over a fish bowl, and break it.

Two small groups of young people tackle one another (the fight ends quickly).

An ambulance with its siren blaring speeds down a highway, we see an injured boy on a gurney being wheeled into an emergency room, his face covered with an oxygen mask and a small bit of blood and dirt on the his face, and another young boy in the ER chair has his arm stitched to close a minor wound (we see a red line, dirt smudges and a little blood).

Two boys cut their palms with a penknife and join hands for several minutes to become blood brothers; they wear small bandages and one reveals a red scab to another youth and explains what becoming a blood brother means.

A boy practices punching and kicking in his kitchen while a church elder looks sternly through the backdoor window and returns later to take the boy away to an isolation unit of the church to re-indoctrinate him in The Brethren's beliefs, the boy runs, is grabbed by the elder and they argue.

A boy visits a schoolmate in the hospital: the patient is wearing casts on his left arm and his left leg and his eyes are swollen and there are four or five stitches over his right eye.

A boy stands against a fence and places a piggybank on his head while someone shoots it off with a crossbow (no one is hurt).

Two boys meet several times dressed as Rambo and an army colonel and act out scenes from "First Blood": one boy swings on vines, jumps out of a tree while using an umbrella as a parachute (he is not hurt), allows himself to be catapulted over a wall into a soft bag of dirt, and he jumps into a lake and pretends to drown.

Several young people film a mock ninja battle: one pretends to knock down three ninja warriors and another youth hits a scarecrow and the a teen with a tree branch, falls down, and two other boys argue.

We see a short film with several scenes cut in from "First Blood," including machine gun fire, bombs smoking and flaming, and Rambo running through the forest with guns and knives.

A kite attached to a stone dog statue sails into a school lab, knocks down a teacher and slams into a fire alarm button, sounding a loud alarm and when we see the teacher again he has stuck a pair of scissors up his nose (there is no blood).

In two dreams, a boy sees an evil scarecrow grab him by the throat, uproot itself, and run toward a village.

Cartoons drawn in a young boy's books show Rambo running through forests with a rifle, and two youth jumping through a forest, carrying rifles and knives.

A teacher leads a boy out of school and places him on detention while other youths throw paper wads at him and tell him to go home.

A boy waiting outside a headmaster's office tells another boy that he will take the blame because they will torture him and he is used to it; we later see the boy in a crowd of children, he groans, grimaces, and says his bottom hurts from torture (we know the boy was never called into the office).

A group of three male church elders goes to the house of a young girl, takes her record player, burns it on a pile of wood and leaves in her back yard as she watches sadly.

A high school aged boy puts a cigarette to his lips as he stands in a line of middle school students and all are holding hands; a boy at the end of the line sticks his finger onto a live electric wire in the schoolyard and the high school student's cigarette turns black and lights up (implying that the electricity traveled through all the kids).

Two boys dress in military clothing, complete with battle fatigues, army berets, and headbands in an attempt to simulate Sylvester Stallone in the Rambo film series.

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