Pride
London gays fundraise for striking Welsh miners. It really happened.
Solidarity as a crowd-pleaser. Impossible to watch dry-eyed.
- 2014
- 120 min
- 93% on Rotten Tomatoes
- 7.8 on IMDb
- #comedy
- #drama
Our take
In 1984, a group of lesbians and gay men in London start collecting money for miners on strike, pick a village more or less at random, and drive the cash to Wales themselves. Both groups are deeply suspicious of the other. Then the miners turn up at Pride the following year to march at the front.
It is a British feel-good film with a real spine, because it is honest about the AIDS crisis arriving in the middle of it and about the people in the village who never came round. Dominic West dancing in the miners’ welfare hall is the single most joyful scene in this entire section.
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Scores
Ours
- Jibbi Score — 5 out of 5 rainbows. Solidarity as a crowd-pleaser. Impossible to watch dry-eyed.
Everyone else’s
- Rotten Tomatoes — 93%, via OMDb.
- IMDb — 7.8 out of 10 from 64,770 votes, via OMDb.
- Metacritic — 79 out of 100, via OMDb.
- TMDB — 7.7 out of 10 from 1,425 votes, refreshed daily.
The plot, officially
In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one problem: the Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.