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Pride

Country: UK, Language: English, 120 mins

  • Director: Matthew Warchus
  • Writer: Stephen Beresford
  • Producer: David Livingstone; Jim Spencer

CGiii Comment

120 wondrous minutes zoom by...

The music alone will lift you up and take you to places you never imagined.

A tear drops...remembering those days, this film...this aide memoire.

Those were dark days...but, we danced and got drunk in The Bell on Sunday nights - remembering the night when the DJ announced Thatcher had left Number 10 - what a party that was...the cheering...a tear drops.

My friend, Martin [RIP] would talk about his beautiful Wales...with love and contempt...this film...this aide memoire.

Jimmy's Why and Frankie's Relax...we were all smalltown boys easing into our pioneering lives, we were different types with stereos, or Walkmans, or Ghetto Blasters...finding our way...this film...this aide memoire.

That Pride, those days...this film...this aide memoire. I weep. Happy/sad tears.

I knew Mark Ashton...

RIP Mark.

RIP Martin. Chris. Philip...

Thank you...for this film...this aide memoire.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

In 1984 20 year old closet gay Joe hesitantly arrives in London from Bromley for his first Gay Pride march and is taken under the collective wing of a group of gay men and Lesbian Steph, who meet at flamboyant Jonathan and his Welsh partner Gethin's Soho bookshop. Not only are gays being threatened by Thatcher but the miners are on strike in response to her pit closures and Northern Irish activist Mark Ashton believes gays and miners should show solidarity. Almost by accident a mini-bus full of gays find themselves in the Welsh village of Onllwyn in the Dulais valley and through their sincere fund raising and Jonathan's nifty disco moves persuade most of the community that they are on the same side. When a bigot tries to sabotage the partnership with a tabloid smear Mark turns it back on her with a hugely successful benefit concert to which most of the villagers, now thoroughly in tune with their gay friends, turn up.

Cast & Characters

Ben Schnetzer as Mark
George MacKay as Joe
Monica Dolan as Marion
Matthew Flynn as Tony
Andrew Scott as Gethin
Joseph Gilgun as Mike
Faye Marsay as Steph
Freddie Fox as Jeff
Jordan Metcalfe as Charlie
Chris Overton as Reggie
Joshua Hill as Ray
Dominic West as Jonathan
Adam Ewan as Lecturer
Menna Trussler as Gwen
Paddy Considine as Dai
Josh Boyd-Rochford as Drag Queen (as Josh Rochford)
Karina Fernandez as Stella
Jessie Cave as Zoe
Jessica Gunning as Sian
Rhodri Meilir as Martin
Lisa Palfrey as Maureen
Imelda Staunton as Hefina
Liz White as Margaret
Nia Gwynne as Gail
Lee Shepherd as Rhodri
Mary-Anne Dymond as Rowena
Sophie Evans as Debbie
Bill Nighy as Cliff
Dyfan Dwyfor as Lee
Jack Baggs as Gary
Johnny Gibbon as Johnny
Kyle Rees as Carl
Bryan Parry as Kevin
Joseph Wilkins as Jason
Laura Matthews as Tina
Feargal Quinn as Jimmy Sommerville
Russell Tovey as Tim
Derek Barr as Brian