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Raining Stones is a 1993 film directed by Ken Loach and starring Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Ricky Tomlinson, Tom Hickey and Gemma Phoenix. It tells the story of a man who cannot afford to buy his daughter a First Communion dress, and makes disastrous choices in trying to raise the money.
Oct 8, 1993 · With Bruce Jones, Julie Brown, Gemma Phoenix, Ricky Tomlinson. This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Ken Loach
- 1993-10-08
Apr 29, 1994 · Bob, a desperate man in hard times, tries to raise money for his daughter's first communion dress. He faces various troubles and adventures with his friend Tommy and the local priest in this realistic and humorous film by the British director Ken Loach.
Light-hearted and compassionate, Raining Stones is one of Ken Loach’s lesser-known films. It’s also one of his funniest, telling the story of an unemployed chancer trying to raise enough money to buy his daughter her first Communion dress.
- Anna Jaskolka
- Ken Loach
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion.
Thanks to beloved character actor Ricky Tomlinson, Raining Stones has some of the funniest comic relief scenes in Ken Loach’s many dramas about working-class people desperately fighting systems that allow them no breathing room. A morally thorny final act makes this one of his richest films.
Synopsis. 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.
