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The film also stars Jim Carter as Harry, Mary Healey as Ida, Melanie Hill as Sandra Ormondroyd, Philip Jackson as Jim, Creator/SueJohnston as Vera, Peter Martin as Ernie, Stephen Moore as [=McKenzie=] and Creator/StephenTompkinson as Phil Ormondroyd.
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The film also stars Jim Carter as Harry, Mary Healey as Ida, Melanie Hill Creator/MelanieHill as Sandra Ormondroyd, Philip Jackson as Jim, Creator/SueJohnston as Vera, Peter Martin as Ernie, Stephen Moore as [=McKenzie=] and Creator/StephenTompkinson as Phil Ormondroyd.
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The film also stars Jim Carter as Harry, Mary Healey as Ida, Melanie Hill as Sandra Ormondroyd, Philip Jackson as Jim, Creator/SueJohnston as Vera, Peter Martin as Ernie, Stephen Moore as [=McKenzie=] and Stephen Tompkinson Creator/StephenTompkinson as Phil Ormondroyd.
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* AndStarring: Stephen Tompkinson is billed as "And Stephen Tompkinson" in the opening credits.
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* AndStarring: Stephen Tompkinson Creator/StephenTompkinson is billed as "And Stephen Tompkinson" in the opening credits.
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He isn’t. Scargill was the national leader of the union; every Yorkshire coalmining union leader in fiction is not a version of Scargill.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The miners' union leader is a thinly disguised version of the real-life unionist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill Arthur Scargill]].
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The film also stars Jim Carter as Harry, Mary Healey as Ida, Melanie Hill as Sandra Ormondroyd, Philip Jackson as Jim, Sue Johnston as Vera, Peter Martin as Ernie, Stephen Moore as [=McKenzie=] and Stephen Tompkinson as Phil Ormondroyd.
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The film also stars Jim Carter as Harry, Mary Healey as Ida, Melanie Hill as Sandra Ormondroyd, Philip Jackson as Jim, Sue Johnston Creator/SueJohnston as Vera, Peter Martin as Ernie, Stephen Moore as [=McKenzie=] and Stephen Tompkinson as Phil Ormondroyd.
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---> '''Phil:''' Harvest Festival. To tell you the truth, I don't know too much about harvest festival, but I do know a story about God. So, God was creating man, and his angels said "hey, we've run out of brains, we've run out of vocal chords", and God said: "Fuck it! Smack smiles on them, send them up anyway. And lo, God created the Tory party!
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---> '''Phil:''' Harvest Festival. To tell you the truth, I don't know too much about harvest festival, but I do know a story about God. So, God was creating man, and his angels said "hey, we've run out of brains, we've run out of hearts and we've run out of vocal chords", and God said: "Fuck it! Smack smiles on them, make them talk out of their arses and send them up anyway. And lo, God created the Tory party!
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* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: Defied. Not only does the elderly Danny not wear a helmet on his bicycle, but he carries Phil as a passenger without a proper seat, while Phil carries his trombone. When Danny puts out his arm to signal a turn, Phil sticks his trombone out as well.
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* ShowerScene: During the opening credits, and during a later montage of the miners at work, the miners shower together, showing no inhibitions about being naked in front of each other. Phil playfully ruffles Harry's hair, to Harry's annoyance.
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* BerserkButton: Phil is furious that the management wants to close a profitable pit; he went on strike in 1984 to protest closure and he's even angrier now about the whole idea.
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* BerserkButton: BerserkButton:
** Phil is furious that the management wants to close a profitable pit; he went on strike in 1984 to protest closure and he's even angrier now about the wholeidea.idea.
** Andy being called a scab by Jim: the whole conversation is carried out with TranquilFury.
---> '''Andy:''' I'm not a kid any more, all right?
---> '''Jim:''' Oh aye, old enough to be a scab then.
---> (Stunned silence)
---> '''Ernie:''' It's all right, Andy, he doesn't mean it.
---> '''Andy:''' (To Jim) You don't mess about with words like that.
---> '''Jim:''' I take it back. You're just a stupid fucker.
---> '''Andy:''' That's more like it.
** Phil is furious that the management wants to close a profitable pit; he went on strike in 1984 to protest closure and he's even angrier now about the whole
** Andy being called a scab by Jim: the whole conversation is carried out with TranquilFury.
---> '''Andy:''' I'm not a kid any more, all right?
---> '''Jim:''' Oh aye, old enough to be a scab then.
---> (Stunned silence)
---> '''Ernie:''' It's all right, Andy, he doesn't mean it.
---> '''Andy:''' (To Jim) You don't mess about with words like that.
---> '''Jim:''' I take it back. You're just a stupid fucker.
---> '''Andy:''' That's more like it.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The miners' union leader is a thinly disguised version of the real-life unionist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Scargill Arthur Scargill]].
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The pit has closed. A thousand miners are unemployed. Phil has tried to kill himself, Danny is dying in hospital, and the only thing he might live for is the band winning the final, but even taking part is impossible, because it would cost three grand. Everything is looking very bad. [[spoiler: And just as the group are mulling this over, Gloria suddenly donates the money she has earned to the band, so they can take part in the final after all.]]
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The pit has closed. A thousand miners are unemployed. Phil has tried to kill himself, Danny is dying in hospital, and the only thing he might live for is the band winning the final, but even taking part is impossible, because it would cost three grand. Everything is looking very bad. [[spoiler: And just as the group are mulling this over, Gloria suddenly solemnly donates the money she has earned to the band, so they can take part in the final after all.]]
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* AsYouKnow: A brief one when Mrs Foggan looks curiously at a box belonging to Gloria, possibly for the benefit of the audience who are not familiar with brass instruments.
--> '''Mrs Foggan:''' What's this, then?
--> '''Gloria:''' It's just a flugel. ({{Beat}}) A trumpet.
* BaitAndSwitch: In-universe. When Gloria [[spoiler: donates her earnings to the band so they can take part in the final]], Jim sounds as if he is not going to allow her to play with them.
--> '''Jim:''' You want to play with us, right?
--> '''Gloria:''' I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing it for you, and Danny.
--> '''Jim:''' Danny would want us to win. Well, we're not going to win, ({{Beat}}) without a flaming flugel, are we?
--> '''Mrs Foggan:''' What's this, then?
--> '''Gloria:''' It's just a flugel. ({{Beat}}) A trumpet.
* BaitAndSwitch: In-universe. When Gloria [[spoiler: donates her earnings to the band so they can take part in the final]], Jim sounds as if he is not going to allow her to play with them.
--> '''Jim:''' You want to play with us, right?
--> '''Gloria:''' I'm not doing this for me. I'm doing it for you, and Danny.
--> '''Jim:''' Danny would want us to win. Well, we're not going to win, ({{Beat}}) without a flaming flugel, are we?
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* ThePatientHasLeftTheBuilding: Even though the hospital won't let Danny out of hospital for the final, he discharges himself when Phil leaves him a note saying "We're going!".
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The pit has closed. A thousand miners are unemployed. Phil has tried to kill himself, Danny is dying in hospital, and the only thing he might live for is the band winning the final, but even taking part is impossible, because it would cost three grand. Everything is looking very bad. [[spoiler: And just as the group are mulling this over, Gloria suddenly donates the money she has earned to the band, so they can take part in the final after all.]]
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* NoAntagonist: There's no major antagonist threatening the main characters, who are brass band musicians. However, the colliery management, especially the rather smug McKenzie, does function as a HateSink.
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* NoAntagonist: There's no major antagonist threatening the main characters, who are brass band musicians. However, the colliery management, especially the rather smug McKenzie, [=McKenzie=], does function as a HateSink.
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* NoAntagonist: There's no major antagonist threatening the main characters, who are brass band musicians.
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* NoAntagonist: There's no major antagonist threatening the main characters, who are brass band musicians. However, the colliery management, especially the rather smug McKenzie, does function as a HateSink.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The fictitious town in which the film is set, where the local industry is being shut down and nearly everyone is depressed and soon-to-be-unemployed, is called "Grimley". Arguably LighterAndSofter than the real town which it's based on, and where the film was actually shot, and whose band plays the Grimley Colliery band: '''Grimethorpe'''.
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* TheCynic: Jim, eventually downplayed. Of all the bandsmen characters, he's the most dour and pessimistic and the first to distrust Gloria. He disapproves of Andy's relationship with her and comes close to calling Andy a scab. When he thinks she's recommended that the pit be closed, he's the first to turn his back on her, and turns down her offer to pay for the band to go to the national finals. However, Phil's suicide attempt seems to make him [[TookALevelInIdealism take a level in idealism]]; he makes Phil come and have a drink with them, and at the end of the film, when they've won the award, he casually asks Gloria if she's all right, prompting Andy to comment [[SarcasmMode "Never seen him gush like that before."]]
