Review of Pride (2014) by Woody Loves M — 06 Sep 2014

PRIDE swelled my heart and made me PROUD to be British.

This movie has jumped straight to the top of my best films, sitting firmly alongside Brassed Off & The Full Monty. Imelda Staunton & Bill Nighy appear (beside many other wonderful actors) in the profoundly important and hilariously re-told story of the joining together in solidarity of two groups less similar as you can image - the striking miners and the Lesbian & Gay communities. It is full of humour and tension but ultimately so heart-warming the tears were streaming down my face. I loved it when the little old Welsh lady asked to be shown all of London's gay nightlife including "the rubber scene". It restores my faith in humanity and traditional British fairness and good nature. I had wondered how we turned around the institutionalised homophobia of the 1980s which saw Britain's LGBT people crushed under the Sexual Offences Act to the legal enshrinement of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act of 2013 - in only a few short decades? Now I know how this journey started.