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Cemetery Junction

Cemetery Junction

Drama · Comedy · 2010

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

Movie details

Cemetery Junction

“Be young. Be free. Be somebody.”

2010 Drama · Comedy 1h 34m

Critical arithmetic

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TMDB

6.5 / 10

Community rating

In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When Freddie gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and bumps into his old school sweetheart Julie, the gang are forced to make choices that will change their lives for ever.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Stephen Merchant · Ricky Gervais

Written by

Ricky Gervais · Stephen Merchant

Christian Cooke

Christian Cooke

Frederick "Freddie" Taylor

Tom Hughes

Tom Hughes

Bruce Pearson

Jack Doolan

Jack Doolan

Snork

Felicity Jones

Felicity Jones

Julie Kendrick

Ralph Fiennes

Ralph Fiennes

Mr. Kendrick

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais

Len Taylor

Emily Watson

Emily Watson

Mrs. Kendrick

Court is in session

Put Cemetery Junction on trial.

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

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.