Story Line
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
“It's not where you're from, it's what you bring.”
Top Cast
Dave Turner
TJ Ballantyne
Ebla Mari
Yara
Claire Rodgerson
Laura
Trevor Fox
Charlie
Chris McGlade
Vic
Col Tait
Eddy
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
2023-09-29
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama
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•10/8/2023Set in a rapidly fading Northern English mining town, this tells the tale of an attempt to integrate some Syrian refugees fleeing the terror in their own country into a community that it still reeling from the systematic closure of their own liveliho...
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•6/9/2024A lack of familiarity can produce so many needless problems, especially when it involves individuals about whom we know little or nothing. That lack of understanding can consequently yield issues that plainly aren’t warranted and, more importantly, c...
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