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The Goob
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Young Goob, 16 years old, returns home to his mother where he grew up in the countryside, between a small restaurant and a field of pumpkins. When his Mum shacks up with swarthy stock car driving supremo and ladies' man Gene Womack, Goob becomes an unwelcome side thought. However Goob's world turns when exotic pumpkin picker Eva arrives. Fuelled by her flirtatious comments, Goob dreams of better things.
Young Goob, 16 years old, returns home to his mother where he grew up in the countryside, between a small restaurant and a field of pumpkins. When his Mum shacks up with swarthy stock car driving supremo and ladies' man Gene Womack, Goob becomes an unwelcome side thought. However Goob's world turns when exotic pumpkin picker Eva arrives. Fuelled by her flirtatious comments, Goob dreams of better things.
Actors:
Oliver Kennedy,
Joe Copsey,
Hannah Spearritt,
Paul Popplewell,
Sean Harris,
Liam Walpole,
Marama Corlett,
Rosa French,
Sienna Guillory
Oliver Kennedy
Joe Copsey
Hannah Spearritt
1 April 1981, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK
Paul Popplewell
1977, England, UK
Sean Harris
1966, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
Liam Walpole
Marama Corlett
Rosa French
Sienna Guillory
16 March 1975, Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK
Director:
Guy Myhill
Guy Myhill
Country:
United States
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May 28, 2015
A really intelligent essay in classic Brit social realism, well-acted and beautifully photographed by cinematographer Simon Tindall.
May 25, 2015
Myhill's debut has admirable artistic ambition and a pungent sense of place and longing.
May 29, 2015
Doesn't quite live up to its early promise, but still a solid debut from first-time British writer/director.
March 22, 2015
A wordless montage of the Goob's night-long first date with one of the migrant pickers who harvest the crops is transcendent.
May 28, 2015
The writer-director Guy Myhill brings an engaging mix of abrasiveness and lyricism to a film that seems at times like a British equivalent to David Gordon Green's early films.
May 31, 2015
The Goob is less about linear narrative than presenting a fragmentary drift of events and a spirit of place that's deeply claustrophobic.
May 28, 2015
The setting for Guy Myhill's terrific coming-of-age drama The Goob is the wind-blasted flatland of rural Norfolk, but there's a reckless, lawless quality to this land and its community that evokes the backwoods of America's deep south.
May 28, 2015
Some typical Britfilm flourishes are present and correct - moody shots of the Goob whipping through the long grass, brandishing a stick - but the Norfolk setting, its sincere leads and an affecting score keep things a touch above the usual.
May 25, 2015
There is a skittishness to Guy Myhill's debut that initially feels impressionistic but ultimately seems like carelessness as his narrative weaves unsteadily through its central character's coming of age, unsure where to place its emphasis.
November 19, 2014
Both alluring and achingly desolate ... It's hard to say what Myhill's goal for film is, apart placing Norfolk centre stage.
May 26, 2015
Despite the wide-open scenery, the film exerts a forceful, pressure-cooker sense of claustrophobic inevitability.
May 25, 2015
At the centre of it all, lanky newcomer Walpole gives a remarkable, sympathetic performance as a boy on the cusp of manhood, struggling with the pressures of a small-town environment and a half-formed desire for something more.
