All right, so the film and leading lad Jamie Bell don’t really deserve the bucketload of awards and nominations that the industry’s showered on them, but Stephen Daldry’s tale of a working class northern lad in 1984 and his dream of becoming a ballet dancer is still a fairly entertaining watch. Even if you can’t quite shake the feeling that it manages to completely miss the point of the miners’ strike...
DVD Extras:
Breaking Free featurette, trailer, cast and film-makers biographies, production notes.Inexplicably missing any sort of commentary, this is a pretty poor package. Anyone watching the gratingly American documentary after seeing the film will find it leaves a slimy taste in their mouth. Anyone watching it beforehand will just have the experience of sitting down to the film itself ruined for them. Utterly pointless.
