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A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.

Status:	Released (2023-09-29)
Awards:	Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award8 wins & 7 nominations total
BoxOffice:	$229,763
Screen:	Paul Laverty
Productions:	Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions, BBC Film, Les Films du Fleuve, Goodfellas, France 2 Cinéma
Production Countries:	Belgium, France, United Kingdom
Spoken Languages:	English, Nederlands, العربية

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CinemaSerf

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Set in a rapidly fading Northern English mining town, this tells the tale of an attempt to integrate some Syrian refugees fleeing the terror in their own country into a community that it still reeling from the systematic closure of their own livelihoods. Much of the story is based ar ....

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Brent Marchant

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A lack of familiarity can produce so many needless problems, especially when it involves individuals about whom we know little or nothing. That lack of understanding can consequently yield issues that plainly aren’t warranted and, more importantly, can be easily dispensed with by sim ....

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badelf

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**The Old Oak (2023)** _Directed by Ken Loach_ Unlike most directors, Ken Loach's films are rarely character or narratively driven; he's the master, maybe the creator, of emotionally driven film. Plot is secondary to feeling, structure is secondary to truth. And one thing is ab ....

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