Son of Rambow-Movie Review

I am really excited to be blogging about this movie, thanks to my cousin and some other referrals we rented "Son of Rambow" a British film about two young boys with different family backgrounds going to the same school in the 1980s...( bonus points for taking place in the 80s).

This story is about tried and true friendship amidst the hardships of a broken home life. Son of Rambow is the name of the home movie made by the two young boys in the film. One boy, Lee Carter, is a trouble-maker at school whose parents are never at home and a older brother who doesn't give him the time of day so he turns to making these bizarre home movies. The other boy, Will, is the eldest son of a fatherless Plymouth Brethren family. He is not allowed to listen to music, or watch movies among other "wordly" things. He meets the infamous Lee Carter at school and he gets convinced to help Lee make a movie even though he has never seen one....Lee exposes Will to a pirated copy of "Rambo:First Blood" and Will immediately falls in love with the movie. Lee Carter convinces Will to be his stuntman in his new crazy home video.

This movie makes you laugh out loud, has some weird Napoleon Dynamite like moments and totally gripped my heart and made me cry. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and it's offbeat moments. And there were a couple moments where you said "huh?" But it was part of the movie's charm. I want you all to watch it and let me know what you think. It made me wish i was a kid again, running thru the woods, building forts and dancing to "Love Cats". Did I mention the soundtrack is kickass? Skill. Watch the movie preview below:

Bad Betsy

Okay so.....didn't end up going to see Battle In Seattle, I hyped it all up and didn't go see it :( The Dunns were excited to have a date night and go see the movie.

We went to Purple Cafe in Seattle, which is a fabulous date night spot by the way, thanks to some friends, we had a gift card to use...I am blaming the excessive wine tasting on the gift card. Let's just say lots of wine + movie watching = zzzzzsss.

So i have no Battle In Seattle review for you and i call myself a movie buff!! Blasphemy! As you can see by the pic of the Purple Cafe below....i was slightly pre-occupied: