Raining Stones

1993

Action / Comedy / Drama

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 100% · 11 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 4897 4.9K

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Plot summary

Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.


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Reviewed by Red-125 9 / 10

Workers with no work. Loach knows this territory.

Raining Stones (1993) is an English film directed by Ken Loach. In this movie, director Loach hammers home his frequent message--workers who can't find work are driven to more and more desperate actions.

Bruce Jones plays Bob, a loving husband and father. Julie Brown portrays his wife, Anne. Bob and Julie are just barely managing to get along, but, as the title suggests, they gradually get pushed to the point when they just don't have enough money for a key purchase.

This purchase is an expensive communion outfit for their daughter. Their parish priest suggests a gown donated to the church, but they are too proud to accept this. They may have problems, but they will have a new dress for the young girl's first communion.

As the plot continues things get worse. The ending of the film was a surprise to me. I didn't see it going that way, and it didn't seem typical for Loach. However, I believe it works.

We saw this film on the small screen, which was OK. Raining Stones has a strong IMDb rating of 7.4. I think it's even better than that.

P.S. On the case of the DVD, Roger Ebert is quoted as saying. "The funniest of Ken Loach's films about working-class life in modern Britain." I don't know what film Ebert saw, but it couldn't have been the one I saw. Raining Stones is an excellent movie, but it's not funny.

Reviewed by =G= 7 / 10

I thought the Scots spoke English

"Raining Stones" is a gritty slice-of-life dramady about a working class family man who has to persevere through difficult financial times to save enough money for his daughter's first communion. An excellent little film by all accounts, this flick builds great depth in its characters making empathy so easy you'll likely speak with a brogue by film's end. In typical Loach fashion, "Raining Stones" works hard fleshing out its characters in fine detail and realistic fashion rather than going for easy, expansive sensationalism. A good human drama with a sense of humor which will most likely be appreciated by more mature audiences. (B)

Note: The DVD I watched had no subtitles or CC and the accents were so thick much of the dialogue was difficult to understand.

Reviewed by avital-gc-1 8 / 10

Empathetic film

Bob has problems making a living. His wife mainly cares for the house and their daughter, and finds it hard to get a job as well. Bob and his friend Tommy are involved in tiny crimes-stealing a sheep, a part of a lawn etc, but ends never meet. The situation becomes worse when Bob and Anne's daughter is going to have her communion. Bob wants to buy her a new outfit, no matter what everyone tells him. He gets into deeper trouble by the day.

Loach has compassion for his characters, however, and the film is not depressing although it shows poverty and how it drains people. He also discusses religion here-the priest is a human version, and Bob's F-I-L represents the opposition. Interesting that he hasn't written the script, and yet it has so much to do with many of his films.

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