Pride

Matthew Warchus's Pride is an impassioned and distinctly loveable movie about this period, a film on the unfashionable subjects of empathy and solidarity. It is warm and witty, with terrific performances; Stephen Beresford's script is fast and funny and there's a rousing musical score from Chris Nightingale. The film is based on the true story of pioneering gay campaigners in London who supported the strikers with the "Pits and Perverts" benefit concerts - and in so doing had to overcome tribal suspicions among both London's gays and the miners of south Wales.

“Pride,” unlike “The Full Monty,” isn't a comedy, but laughs are harvested from the collision of macho working-class miners in South Wales and ...