Pride (2014-2015) Pal Rental DVD5 DD5.1 Fr NedSubs TBS
Verenigd Koninkrijk
Komedie
120 minuten
geregisseerd door Matthew Warchus
met Bill Nighy, Dominic West en Andrew Scott
Het is de zomer van 1984. Margaret Thatcher is aan de macht
en de Nationale Unie van Mijnwerkers (NUM) is in staking.
Tijdens de Gay Pride Mars in Londen, besluit een groep van
homoseksuele en lesbische activisten geld in te zamelen om de
families van de mijnwerkers te steunen. Maar er is één probleem,
de Unie schaamt zich er voor om hun steun te ontvangen.
Storyline
In 1984 20 year old closet gay Joe hesitantly arrives in London
from Bromley for his first Gay Pride march and is taken under
the collective wing of a group of gay men and Lesbian Steph,
who meet at flamboyant Jonathan and his Welsh partner
Gethin's Soho bookshop. Not only are gays being threatened by
Thatcher but the miners are on strike in response to her pit closures
and Northern Irish activist Mark Ashton believes gays and
miners should show solidarity. Almost by accident a mini-bus
full of gays find themselves in the Welsh village of Onllwyn in
the Dulais valley and through their sincere fund raising and
Jonathan's nifty disco moves persuade most of the community
that they are on the same side. When a bigot tries to sabotage
the partnership with a tabloid smear Mark turns it back on
her with a hugely successful benefit concert to which most of
the villagers, now thoroughly in tune with their gay friends, turn up