Among Giants

Simon Beaufoy, of The Full Monty, scripted this British romantic comedy-drama. Like The Full Monty, this is also set among the working class of Sheffield, England. With his pal Steve (James Thornton) and others, Ray (Pete Postlethwaite) paints electrical pylons across the Yorkshire countryside, and ...more

Simon Beaufoy's screenplay and the direction of This Life veteran Sam Miller give this class-conscious British comic drama an unselfconsciousness that's miles away from both the grim nihilism of, say, Mike Leigh's Naked and the escapist, working-man's triumph of Beaufoy's own The Full Monty script. Set in an almost archetypal landscape of endless moors and impossibly tall electrical towers, the film finds its painter protagonists seeking emotional freedom as vast as the spaces in which they ...more