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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
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NR,1hr 50min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1962
Director:
Tony Richardson
Distributor:
Continental
Starring:
Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam  ...more
Synopsis: One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and early 60's, this story centers on Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay), a bitter young man from a working-class family. Uninterested in school and determined not to follow his father into factory work, Colin and his friend Mike (James Bolam) make their pocket money through petty crime, until they're arrested after the robbery of a baker's shop and sentenced to Borstal (British reform school). ... Full Synopsis
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Rebecca Flint Marx, AMG Review
Bearing all the hallmarks of the British New Wave (and owing a sizable debt to the French New Wave), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured the bitterness and resentment that characterized the "angry young man" in the British post-war landscape. Relentlessly grim and uncompromising in its condemnation of the ruling class, the film and its hero are at times hard to take. But if the film ... Full Review
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Tom Courtenay
Colin Smith
Michael Redgrave
Governor
James Bolam
Mike
Avis Bunnage
Mrs. Smith
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