A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
"Fed up with the system. Ticked off at the establishment. And mad about... each other."
Top Billed Cast
Ewan McGregor
Andy Barrow
Tara Fitzgerald
Gloria
Pete Postlethwaite
Danny
Jim Carter
Harry
Stephen Tompkinson
Phil
Philip Jackson
Jim
Sue Johnston
Vera
Peter Martin
Ernie
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2014-06-28
Land of bloody hope and glory eh!
Grimley Colliery Brass Band has been going for nigh on a century, but as the town's colliery itself comes under threat of closure due to the drawn out miners strikes, so does the bands very own survival. Giving much relief to a very depressed area, the band are hoping to make the grand finals day at the Royal Albert Hall, could the arrival of Flugelhorn player, Gloria, be just what the band needs? Or is she merely the catalyst to something far more critical?
Brassed Off is the first of what I personally call the Magical British Trio, three films that per...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2023-08-27
A touching drama of a declining mining community in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Pete Postlethwaite is subtle but forceful in his portrayal of "Danny"; the leader of the Grimley Colliery Band - one of the traditional brass bands that usually accompanied each mine in the North of England, much a there is a choir usually associated with a Welsh one. The story marries the inevitability of the mine closure with the impact on family and relationships throughout this close knit community and uses their band rehearsals as the axis for the plot. Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson and Jim C...
