UK gay and lesbian activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.
Pride is a warming, big-hearted affair which fully embraces the principles it so wonderfully portrays, turning itself into a lesson in compassion.
A feel-good charmer with an important message, Pride will have you clutching your sides, wiping your eyes and punching the air in triumph. Could this be this decade’s Full Monty?
A clear winner that makes you laugh, cry, and generally want to party and parade like it’s 1984. Respect.
This a richly enjoyable film – and one that persuades you that the good guys might actually have won in the end.
It is a great British film and you really must see it.
A dose of tolerance medicine that tastes good.
Its appeal lies not just in its humour but in its joyous celebration of decency, tolerance and consensus at one of the most divisive times in recent British social history.
Pride belongs to that strain of British period cinema to be, well, proud of.
The overload of individual storylines is the film’s only possible flaw as there is not enough room for so many well-drawn characters to breathe.
I laughed, I cried, and frankly I would have raised a clenched fist were both hands not already occupied wiping away the bittersweet tears of joy.
Pride depicts an interesting bit of history, but its real message is about two vilified and marginalised groups who discover comradeship, solidarity and Bronski Beat.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
Edinburgh Filmhouse, Edinburgh from Friday October 24, 2014, until Thursday October 30, 2014. More info: www.filmhousecinema.com
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