Peterloo

Movie

2018

2h 34m

PG-13

English

History, Drama

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6.3

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Peterloo

PG-13

Movie

2018

2h 34m

English

History, Drama

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An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest and most notorious episodes in British history. The massacre saw British government forces charge into a crowd of over 60,000 that had gathered to demand political reforms and protest against rising levels of poverty.

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Cast

Henry Hunt

Nellie

Joshua

Joseph

Mary

Robert

Esther

Lord Liverpool, the Prime Minister

Karl Johnson

Lord Sidmouth, the Home Secretary

Mr Hobhouse

Mr Grout

Mr Golightly

Mr Cobb

Mrs Moss

General Sir John Byng

Samuel Bamford

Jemima Bamford

John Knight

John Thacker Sexton

Joseph Johnson

Mrs Johnson

James Wroe

Dr Joseph Healey

Jack, Wroe's Printer

John Bagguley

Directed By: Mike Leigh

Written By: Mike Leigh

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faithful soul says...

5 years ago

While I still miss the Mike Leigh of such character-based televison plays as Nuts in May and Abigail's Party, he still has time for small character dramatics in this otherwise larger scale true-story account of the 'Massacre at Peterloo.' It's a shocking moment in history, one that I knew little about, and while it is based firmly in the past, there are still echoes of the way upper class governments demoralise and mistreat the working classes of today's society. Shocking and sad, it's a long, sometimes adurous film, but one worth sitting through.

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Spiritualized Kaos says...

5 years ago

The language is elaborate and the pace of the film slow, but the historical interest of the film is very high.

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narrator56

5 years ago

Fine historical film, though it has less emotional depth than other Mike Leigh movies. That makes sense, for his movies have never been described as an epic before.

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CinemaSerf

one year ago

It's quite interesting to consider that even in the mother of western democracies, as recently as two hundred years ago most men did not have the vote in the UK, and great swathes of urban Britain had no representation at all. Mike Leigh is perhaps a little heavy handed here, but he does offer us an More

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