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Growing Out
A young boy growing up in an old people's home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician in this drama starring Michael Caine
What a peculiarly sour little film this is. It says something when, during the screening this writer attended, the projectionist accidentally got his reels mixed up and screened a few moments of doomy Bergmanesque vampire flick Let The Right One In - and it came as a bit of light relief.
British cinema loves to fetishize northern childhoods - that mix of grit and sentimentality is irresistible - and screenwriter Peter Harness has called on boyhood memories of being raised in his parents-run nursing home in Hornsea, east Yorkshire, in the 1980s.
Growing up in such an environment, 10-year-old Edward (Bill Milner, Son Of Rambow) is clos...
Growing Out
A young boy growing up in an old people's home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician in this drama starring Michael Caine
What a peculiarly sour little film this is. It says something when, during the screening this writer attended, the projectionist accidentally got his reels mixed up and screened a few moments of doomy Bergmanesque vampire flick Let The Right One In - and it came as a bit of light relief.
British cinema loves to fetishize northern childhoods - that mix of grit and sentimentality is irresistible - and screenwriter Peter Harness has called on boyhood memories of being raised in his parents-run nursing home in Hornsea, east Yorkshire, in the 1980s.
Growing up in such an environment, 10-year-old Edward (Bill Milner, Son Of Rambow) is clos...
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