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Brassed Off
MEANRANK
73/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 60, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 79.
See the most agreed on films →A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
Details
- Director
- Mark Herman
- Writer
- Mark Herman
- Studio
- Prominent Features, Channel Four Films
- Released
- 1 November 1996
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Box office
- $2.6M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| César Award 1996 | Best Foreign Film | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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