Pride takes place in the UK in 1984 a year after Margaret Thatcher won her 2nd election as Prime Minister convincingly but the Miners have gone on strike and they just might have some unexpected help in their fight from a very different section of the community.
Pride is good fun, it has a great soundtrack (the highlight for me was a Phil Collins song), a nice cheery and positive tone to its story and has some very good performances by Bill Nighy, Paddy Considine, Imelda Stanton as well as George Mackay, Faye Marsay and Ben Schnetzer.
Sadly my knowledge of UK political history undercut some of the dramatic tension on show in the film here as the late Baroness would go on to win the 1987 UK Election and the British Conservative Party would go to win the 1992 election after she lost the leadership in 1990 and as the film went on those facts just kept coming to the surface as well as the fact that UK Labour didn't really go anywhere until Tony Blair took the Opposition Leadership in 1994 and then won the 1997 British election where he would not reverse any of the changes Thatcher made to Britain.
But despite my political junkie problems (and they're not problems that affect the film at all, not in the slightest) I did have a good time at this film and would recommend it to filmgoers, 3 out of 5.
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