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Room for Romeo Brass, A
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Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by:
Paul Fraser
Shane Meadows
Robyn Slovo (story editor)
Directed by: Shane Meadows
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 27, 2000
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for pervasive language, and for some elements of violence and sexuality
Starring Andrew Shim, Ben Marshall, Paddy Considine, and Frank Harper
The humorous, harsh, and movingly human coming-of-age tale of two 12-year-old boys told by screenwriters Meadows and Paul Fraser comes from their own shared childhood experience. (USA Films)
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What The Critics Said
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Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard
The most poignant (if hard-hitting) depiction of childhood to show up this year.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Manohla Dargis
Indeed, one of the nicest things about this jewel of a film is that there isn't much of a story at all -- just a handful of delicately drawn characters moving through life that is at once familiar and yet slightly elevated by a director who loves the good in people more than the bad.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
An assured, graceful instance of effective screen storytelling, and Meadows draws splendid performances from his cast, especially from the young Shim and Marshall.
Read Full Review >Film.com Ernest Hardy
By turns amusing, touching and horrifying, A Room For Romeo Brass is a film that defies expectation at every turn.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Loren King
Offers an honest, understated and unsentimental look at a small incident in the course of a friendship - but it is the kind of incident that defines most childhoods.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
A quirky little film with an offbeat trajectory that rattles through the bones of story with eyes open to the texture of experience and the dimensions of character.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Effortless in the way it insinuates itself into these families, touching in the way it shows how fiercely Romeo and Knocks are, despite everything, their own little men.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
A sense of authenticity overshadows any contrivance in this subtly classic drama.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
It is essentially a personal reminiscence of daily life that captures with an astonishing precision exactly what it felt to be a 12-year- old boy growing up in a particular time and place.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
Proceeds with an episodic pace, full of narrative twists and turns that clearly are not pretested by a Hollywood committee. Things feel sort of strange and original all at once.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Amy Taubin
So low-key it could be mistaken for a throwaway. But Meadows's understanding of childhood fears and fantasies and the yearning, heartfelt performances he draws from his two young actors should not be underestimated.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Meadows is very good with the boys' relationship, and achieves his and Fraser's central goal of showing how childhood bonds can be simultaneously fragile and strong.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
An easygoing kitchen-sink comedy with an unsettling final act.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
More and more independent filmmakers seem to be cobbling together characters and scenes that have surface hook and flash without organic emotional logic.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Steve Simels
A kitchen-sink realist coming-of-age story in the venerable British tradition, with all the good and bad that entails.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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