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Synopsis

A nostalgic trip back to the 1980s, SON OF RAMBOW is an inventive valentine to an era where, for the first time in history, young minds had access to technology that allowed them to create their own stories while paying homage to their larger-than-life heroes from the movies that inspired them.

Will, who isn't allowed to watch TV or go to the movies, expresses himself through his drawings and illustrations until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of Lee Carter, the school terror and crafter of bizarre home movies. Carter exposes Will to a pirated copy of the first Rambo film, "First Blood," which blows his mind wide open. Against his family's orders, his imaginative little brain begins to flower in the world of filmmaking. Will and Lee become popular at school through their films, but when a French exchange student, Didier Revol, arrives on the scene, their unique friendship and precious film are pushed to the breaking point.

Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith, aka Hammer & Tongs, the creative visionaries behind "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," utilize a vast array of visual techniques to perfectly capture the moment in time when anything was possible and dreams could be recreated with a home video camera, a few props, and a ton of imagination.

Film Information

• Genre: Comedy / Drama
• Director: Garth Jennings
• Written By: Garth Jennings
• Starring: Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jules Sitruk, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Anna Wing, Ed Westwick, and Eric Sykes
• Running Time: 96 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence and reckless behavior
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Perhaps the most ingeniously imaginative element in SON OF RAMBOW, a film exploding with imagination (some of it scrawled directly over the film in animated expressions of Will's private world), is its very conceit."

   - Sean Axmaker, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling."

   - Kimberley Jones, Austin Chronicle

"In many ways, SON OF RAMBOW plays like a pint-size, even cheekier version of the recent Michel Gondry film"

   - Ty Burr, Boston Globe

"Watching skinny-armed little Will pretend to be the spawn of Sly Stallone in a series of botched feats of derring-do is a treat, as is much of this film."

   - Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian

"Jennings's film, with its missing fathers, sometimes threatens to become cloying, but it's almost always righted by a healthy dose of slapstick or the spectacle of little kids posing as muscle-bound killers."

   - J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

Showtimes

• Wednesday, June 11th
  4:45 pm, 9:00 pm
• Thursday, June 12th
  4:45 pm, 7:00 pm
• Friday, June 13th
  4:45 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Saturday, June 14th
  2:30 pm, 4:45 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Sunday, June 15th
  2:30 pm, 4:45 pm, 7:00 pm
• Monday, June 16th
  4:45 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Tuesday, June 17th
  4:45 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:15 pm
• Wednesday, June 18th
  5:30 pm
• Thursday, June 19th
  5:30 pm
• Friday, June 20th
  9:15 pm
• Saturday, June 21st
  2:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Sunday, June 22nd
  2:30 pm
• Monday, June 23rd
  4:45 pm
• Tuesday, June 24th
  3:45 pm