Son of Rambow

Son of Rambow is a 2007 BritishFrenchGerman comedydrama film written and directed by Garth Jennings. The film premiered onJanuary 2007 at the Sundance Film Festival. It was later shown at the Newport Beach Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival. The film was also shown at the 51st BFI London Film Festival. Son of Rambow was released in the United Kingdom onApril 2008 and opened in limited release in the United States onMay 2008. Set during an English summer during the early 1980s, the film is a coming of age story about two schoolboys and their attempts to make an amateur film inspired by First Blood.

Will accepts, after accidentally seeing the film First Blood at Lees house while hiding from Lawrence. He becomes very enthusiastic, and plays several dangerous action scenes, culminating in the two boys becoming blood brothers after Lee saves Will from drowning. Lee finds Wills sketch book, full of colourful and glorious ideas, and starts to incorporate some of them into his film script. The two become best friends, but Will has to keep it secret from his family and the increasingly interfering Brother Joshua of the Brethren, who clearly has designs on his mother.French exchange students arrive, of whom the suave Didier Revol Jules Sitruk becomes very popular. After finding Wills sketch book, he asks Will if he and his acolytes can play in the film, and Will agrees. Didier reveals that he has always wanted to be an actor. This mushrooms into the whole school being part of the production, and Will being included with the cool sixthformers. Lee does not like this, as he is no longer in control, and finally quits after a fight with Will during filming of the last sequence, which takes place at a disused power station. After Will becomes trapped when part of the unstable structure collapses due to Didiers carelessness, and the entire schoolcrew run away, Lee returns to rescue his friend, but uses the excuse that he has come to collect his brothers camera. He too gets hurt, and has to go to hospital. Lawrence visits him, but is angry about the fact that the camera is broken. ........

Source: Wikipedia