“Son of Rambow” is a delightful coming-of-age tale that also touches on the importance of friends and family. However, it’s a small movie that opened on May 2, so it may not be in a theater near you. Set in a small English town in the 1980s, “Son of Rambow” pairs two unusual boys: Lee Carter (Will Poulter), a budding juvenile delinquent whose parents are away and have left him in the care of his inattentive older brother, is determined to win a competition for student film makers. Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner), a lonely child with a single mother whose fundamentalist faith has made him an outsider at school, becomes Lee’s enthusiastic partner when Lee inadvertently exposes Will to a pirated copy of “First Blood.” Their work on the unauthorized sequel, “Son of Rambow,” allows Will to work through some of his grief about losing his father and eventually pulls in many other students, including Didier (Jules Sitruk), a bored French exchange student.
Much of the humor comes from Will’s willingness to throw himself wholeheartedly into Lee’s project, even to the point of jumping out of a tree with an umbrella in place of a parachute, and from their creative attempts to bring their amateur script to visual fruition. Making “Son of Rambow” proves to be a liberating experience for Will, who chafes against the strict practices of his faith and for Lee, it results in his first real friendship. So if you miss this appealing film in the theaters, be sure to catch it on DVD. (6/2/08)
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