D: Gurinder Chadha (Viceroy’s House, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife; Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging; Bride & Prejudice, Bend it Like Beckham, Bhaji on the Beach).
S: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Dean-Charles Chapman, Aaron Phagura, Nell Williams, Meera Ganatra, Sally Phillips, Rob Brydon, Hayley Atwell.
A celebration of the music of Bruce Springsteen, and a damning of the Tory Party. A coming of age movie looking at the grimness of Margaret Thatcher's Britain. (Comparisons to current austerity and Brexit policies are inevitable.) The unnecessarily sentimental ending almost lets the side down.
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