What: Brit cinema again does the based-on-a-true-story thing --- U.K. gay activists rally to support striking miners in the mid-'80s.
Take this rainbowy bedrock of social justice, add a crackerjack cast (McNulty as you've never seen him) and this-is-what-happened-to-them end credits, and you've basically got the Platonic ideal of a crowd-pleaser, in the Billy Elliot/Kinky Boots/Full Monty vein.
Triumphant and a little sad and super fun.
Comparable to: As I said, Billy Elliot, Kinky Boots, Full Monty.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Pride was part of List #47: Some of the Best Movies I Saw in 2014 and List #50: A Personal Wreck Interlude.
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