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Brassed Off

Fed up with the system. Ticked off at the establishment. And mad about... each other.

7.0(307)19961h 47m4

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$2.6M
Language
English
  • northern england
  • province
  • brass band
  • music competition
  • yorkshire

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Mark Herman

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival16 Jan 1997
    • Theatrical (limited)R23 May 1997
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical151 Nov 1996
  • GermanyDE

    • Premiere12Berlin International Film Festival1 Feb 1997
  • NetherlandsNL

    • TheatricalAL23 Oct 1997
    • TVALNederland 130 Dec 2002
    • PhysicalALDVD11 Nov 2003
    • PhysicalALBlu ray26 Aug 2011

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Brassed Off was released on 1 November 1996.

Audience reviews

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  • J

    John Chard

    6/28/2014

    9/10

    Land of bloody hope and glory eh! Grimley Colliery Brass Band has been going for nigh on a century, but as the town's colliery itself comes under threat of closure due to the drawn out miners strikes, so does the bands very own survival. Giving much relief to a very depressed area, the band are hoping to make the grand finals day at the Royal Albert Hall, could the arrival of Flugelhorn player, Gloria, be just wha…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    8/27/2023

    7/10

    A touching drama of a declining mining community in Margaret Thatcher's Britain. Pete Postlethwaite is subtle but forceful in his portrayal of "Danny"; the leader of the Grimley Colliery Band - one of the traditional brass bands that usually accompanied each mine in the North of England, much a there is a choir usually associated with a Welsh one. The story marries the inevitability of the mine closure with the impac…

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