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Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow

Comedy · 2007

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

Movie details

Son of Rambow

“Make believe. Not war.”

2007 Comedy 1h 35m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

7.0 / 10

33.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

73 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

66 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.7 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Son of Rambow?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Garth Jennings

Written by

Garth Jennings

Bill Milner

Bill Milner

Will Proudfoot

Will Poulter

Will Poulter

Lee Carter

Jessica Hynes

Jessica Hynes

Mary Proudfoot

Jules Sitruk

Jules Sitruk

Didier Revol

Neil Dudgeon

Neil Dudgeon

Joshua

Ed Westwick

Ed Westwick

Lawrence Carter

Anna Wing

Anna Wing

Grandma

Court is in session

Put Son of Rambow on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.