Good but sentimental English. political flick about coal pit shutdowns in the Tory era of John Major. Well acted male weepie, (I’d rate it three red hankies), but lots of fun about a British coal town workers’ brass band and the struggle to resist a shutdown of the pit. A comic drama about the social and personal cost of these shutdowns. Subtext is love affair between woman economist there to evaluate the pit’s economic viability (management) and a miner-horn player (labor). Another of those class-conscious movies that no American filmmaker would or could make. Both Bronwen and I really liked the movie