Son of Rambow

A young boy rebels against his family’s ultra-conservative religion by helping his school’s bad boy create a home- made action movie. Touching comedy., A couple of ’80s schoolboys create a home-video sequel to the first Rambo movie., During a long English summer in the early 1980s, two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood., A young boy rebels against his family’s ultra-conservative religion by helping his school’s bad boy create a home-made action movie., Inspired by the first “Rambo” movie, two schoolboys in 1980s Britain form an unlikely friendship as they attempt to make their own action epic. Will Poulter and Bill Milner star in this charming coming-of-age comedy from writer-director Garth Jennings (“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”). Jessica Stevenson, Anna Wing, Neil Dudgeon, Jules Sitruk., Son of Rambow is the name of a home movie created by two little boys with a big video camera and even bigger ambitions., Touching comedy set in in 1980s England in which two young boys from very different backgrounds, inspired by viewing a pirate copy of action movie First Blood, join forces to make a thrilling film of their own., Two young boys from very different backgrounds, inspired by viewing action movie First Blood, join forces to make a thrilling film of their own., As the summer sun shines down on England in the early 1980s, two boys who couldn’t be more different are brought together by a mutual love of cinema and a desire to emulate their favorite action movie icon. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is a well-mannered schoolboy being raised in an ultra-religious community that deplores such corruptive distractions as television and seeks to maintain its purity by severely limiting contact with the outside world. In order to exorcise his creative inner demons, Will has taken to sketching imaginative drawings and complex illustrations. Lee Carter (Will Poulter) is the school terror, a rampaging hellion whose overaggressive behavior has made him an endless source of frustration to the faculty, and a source of fear to his fellow classmates. As fate would have it, Will is in the school hallway avoiding exposure to the classroom television when a fed-up teacher ejects Lee from the classroom. Though at first it appears as if Lee is about to torment timid Will just as he does the rest of the student body, the two form a tight bond after Will convinces Lee to view a bootleg copy of Rambo: First Blood. When Lee informs Will that he wants to shoot a homebrewed version of the violent action film for an upcoming amateur filmmaking contest, a sudden streak of rebellion prompts his sheltered classmate to readily agree. As the summer wears on the two boys set out to create the ultimate no-budget action movie, but their grand vision hits an unexpected hitch when a busload of French exchange students arrive at the school and the leader of the pack attempts to hijack the production., Touching comedy set in in 1980s England in which two young boys from very different backgrounds, inspired by viewing action movie First Blood, join forces to make a thrilling film of their own.