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Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company.Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company.Five Yorkshiremen try to survive after the British Rail is bought out by a private company.
- Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total
Thomas Craig
- Mick
- (as Tom Craig)
Angela Forrest
- Tracy
- (as Angela Saville)
- Director
- Writer
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- GoofsThe vest that John wears in the beginning (with the meter) and end (their last job), is actually a British Rail safety vest, over his Gilchrist coat (when he moves you can see the gray on it). He has the combination on before the company is renamed Gilchrist Engineering.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Il était une fois...: Moi, Daniel Blake (2021)
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excellent
THE NAVIGATORS is another excellent Ken Loach movie.
I had been putting off watching it because I thought it would be very gruelling and upsetting. I've been a fan of Ken Loach's movies for a long time but oftentimes I am not in the mood because I know I'll either cry or get upset (or both).
THE NAVIGATORS is different than his other films. It isn't a movie where you cry and have the feeling of being emotionally raked over the coals (just saw the haunting SWEET SIXTEEN and am still having the aftershocks from that one).
Anyway, THE NAVIGATORS is a movie that you watch and get angry. For anyone working in a globalized economy (i.e., almost everyone) the ideas behind the railworker's plight -- how absolutely screwed they are -- is nothing new. Yet I can't think of a movie that has illustrated this situation more clearly. It's actually shocking that there aren't more movies about how altered our working world has became. Possibly because this is such a current experience in the world today.
THE NAVIGATORS is a saga of working men, attractive, tough, garrulous, hard-working people who just want to work hard, make money, live their lives.
I recommend the movie highly.
I had been putting off watching it because I thought it would be very gruelling and upsetting. I've been a fan of Ken Loach's movies for a long time but oftentimes I am not in the mood because I know I'll either cry or get upset (or both).
THE NAVIGATORS is different than his other films. It isn't a movie where you cry and have the feeling of being emotionally raked over the coals (just saw the haunting SWEET SIXTEEN and am still having the aftershocks from that one).
Anyway, THE NAVIGATORS is a movie that you watch and get angry. For anyone working in a globalized economy (i.e., almost everyone) the ideas behind the railworker's plight -- how absolutely screwed they are -- is nothing new. Yet I can't think of a movie that has illustrated this situation more clearly. It's actually shocking that there aren't more movies about how altered our working world has became. Possibly because this is such a current experience in the world today.
THE NAVIGATORS is a saga of working men, attractive, tough, garrulous, hard-working people who just want to work hard, make money, live their lives.
I recommend the movie highly.
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- erikaherzog
- Dec 22, 2003
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- Also known as
- Demiryolcular
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- Gross US & Canada
- $3,052
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,940
- Feb 23, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $1,807,686
- Runtime1 hour 36 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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