Cemetery Junction (film)

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Cemetery Junction is a 2010 British comedy drama written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. The film was released in the UK on April 14, 2010.

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Plot

In the early 1970s in England, three friends spent their days wrestling, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie (Christian Cooke) wants to run away from the world of their working class, but the clever and cheerful Bruce (Tom Hughes) and the benevolent slacker Snork (Jack Doolan) is happy with life as it is now. When Freddie got a new job as a door-to-door insurance salesman and bumped into his old lover, Julie (Felicity Jones), the gang was forced to make choices that would change their lives forever.

Freddie's boss is Julie's father (Ralph Fiennes). Selling life insurance in the hope of improving his life and not ending like the father of his factory worker (Ricky Gervais), Freddie learned from top company salesman Mike Ramsay (Matthew Goode), who is also Julie's fiancé, how to scare people into buying insurance. Bruce is full of life, with the idea that one day he will leave Cemetery Junction, but he hates and hates his father (Francis Magee) for letting his mother go for another man without fighting for him. Snork only stayed to spend his time with Bruce and Freddie, working at the train station and looking for a boyfriend, a search that was hindered by a lack of social skills. Freddie relives his friendship with Julie, who reveals his dream to see the world and become a photographer, but his father and his fiancé Mike both expect him to be an ordinary housewife, just like his mother.

Freddie was invited to the winning ball of his company to celebrate his initiation and several others to the company, and he took Bruce and Snork as his guests. During the night, Snork tires off the band, and claims he can do better. Bruce convinces them to let Snork perform with them. The crowd initially enjoyed his performance, but he was carried away and told a very inappropriate joke, embarrassing Freddie. He confronts and reprimands Snork and Bruce, but Bruce rejects it, still claims he will leave town, and that Freddie will never be like his comrades because he's not a vagina, which people accidentally hear, forcing them to leave.

The next day Freddie toured the city thanked his client for helping him start his new career, and learned that his first client's husband had died. Deciding not to live off the misery of people, he asks Bruce when they plan to leave. They invited Julie to the nightclub, and convinced Snork to go with them. At the club Bruce begins to dance with a black woman, whom he is mocked by two men, provoking him to attack the men and be locked up in police cells for the night.

Freddie accompanied Julie to her home and they developed a photo that Julie had taken all night long. They argue about their feelings, the lives of their parents and Julie's engagement with Mike, who follows the same path as his parents' relationship. Freddie declares his love for Julie and asks him to go traveling with him, but he refuses and tells him to leave. Bruce meets in his cell by officer Wayne Davies (Steve Speirs), an old friend of his father and a man who is respected by Bruce, who is fed up with Bruce who brings his anger at his father to others. He tells Bruce the story of the night his mother left behind, revealing that his mother left him and did not want anything to do with his father, but his father did - and told him to grow up and forget his anti-social behavior.

The next morning, Snork went to the cafe. He often and talks with Louise, a girl who works there who has feelings for her, and they form a relationship. Bruce walks home and secretly makes amends with his father. When Freddie arrives at the train station to begin his journey, he finds Snork ready to work, having decided to stay, and they say goodbye emotionally. Julie realizes that Freddie is right, and that her relationship with Mike will dampen her, and go to the train station. Snork announces on top of the PA station that Bruce will not join Freddie on his way. Deciding not to go alone, Freddie will leave his adventure when he sees Julie running towards him, and they ride the train together.

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Cast

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Production

The film was originally titled The Man from the Pru , a colloquial term (and then an advertising slogan) for insurance company agents Prudential. During film writing, Prudential allows Gervais and Merchants to use their archives for research. However, after reading the finished script, the company decided that they were not happy with how the company would be portrayed in the movie and decided not to allow their names to be used. The new title comes from the Cemetery Intersection in the Newtown district of Reading where the movie took place.

The subject of photography began on June 15, 2009, filming locations including Taylors Bell Foundry and Great Central Railway using Loughborough Central railway station. However, intermittent views showing panning cameras around the rural landscape were filmed in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Several street scenes were filmed in Woodstock, Oxfordshire with Woodstock Town Hall used to describe the outside of the Junction Cemetery police station. An extended trailer was broadcast on Channel 4 on January 31, 2010.

Cemetery Junction was arranged in a small town in 1973. Gervais explained that the title of the film was taken from Cemetery Junction, Reading, an area he knew as a child - the actual crossroads in Reading, where Wokingham Road is divided from London Road. Gervais also added "[...] it's not really set in Reading, it's a small town, anywhere in the world to be honest." According to him, this is the story of "the future" which is a cross between Office and Mad Men .

Write

In an interview with BBC Radio 2's Danny Wallace on January 9, 2010, Merchant stated his script was loosely based on the lyrics of Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road". This sentiment was repeated by Gervais on April 12, 2010 when it appeared on The Graham Norton Show .

Gervais told BBC South Today that British "kitchen sink" movies such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning were influences on the film.

Music

Interviewed for The Guardian, Gervais explains his musical choice for the film:

The intersection is probably the most personal of all my work so far. Sure, I worked in the office for 8 years as a middle manager, like David Brent, then I worked on TV like Andy Millman, and like most comedians, I stand up observational. But Cemetery Junction not only based on my memory of my most important years but also ate the most basic things in making a man: family, economy, time and place you happen to meet. Although the film is a fiction, the values, themes and characters are based on the memory I grew up in Reading in the early 70s. The soundtrack should reflect that. It's pure coincidence that the songs in this movie become some of my favorites. (Only one of the privileges of being a writer/director/producer/pop star fails).

The soundtrack for this movie includes the following:

• "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)", written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, was done by Elton John.
• "Amazona", written by Bryan Ferry/Phil Manzanera, conducted by Roxy Music.
• "Life's A Gas", written by Marc Bolan, is done by T. Rex.
All the Young Dudes, words and music by David Bowie, performed by Mott the Hoople, featured vocals by David Bowie.
• "The Rain Song", written by Jimmy Page/Robert Plant, conducted by Led Zeppelin.

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Reception

Reviews about films are generally mixed. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gave the film 57% based on 35 professional reviews, summing them up as: "Failed to challenge the established conventions of the plot, but Cemetery Junction benefited from the warmth of the script, and his refusal to give in to cheap nostalgia."

Movie Total gave it four out of five stars and called it "Britain's most confident debut since Shallow Grave ". Time Out magazine gave the film three stars and said it was "refreshing to see a major English film with ambitions to prop up things with studio terms". Adam Smith of The Radio Times commented that "it was written deftly, without a point of directing and acting well" and also gave him three stars. OK! appreciates "sweet characters and good actors" and also likes "vintage view of movies" and "great supporters". The Daily Mirror gave this movie a very positive review gave it four stars and said; "This film is not a simple laughing festival, but it's more clever, funny and interesting than the story of the times with the classic killer soundtrack of the 1970s."

On the other hand, Uncut refers to it as "a passable, slightly transfers, and coming of age" English film. Andrew Barker of Variety writes, "This is a weird hybrid of a movie, boasting boorishness rather than humor, and schmaltz luck-a cake instead of a heart." Peter Bradshaw reviews the film for The Guardian and concludes that the movie "entertains as far as it goes, but must be completely and Gervaisishly funny, or utterly evil, vinegary and sad before everyone involved is, to create phrases coins, at the intersection. "

box office

The opening weekend reception of the film is Ã, Â £ 641,218. At the end of its theatrical journey in England, the film has reached Ã, Â £ 1,329,002.

Accolades

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Home media

Cemetery Junction was released in the UK on DVD and Blu-ray format on August 30, 2010. The DVD bonus features include commentary tracks from Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, deleted scenes and two featurettes including interviews with cast and crew. The Blu-ray release also includes some additional features.

Columbia Pictures decided not to theatically release the film in the company's home market. Thus, the film was released on DVD in Canada and the United States by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 17, 2010.

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References

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External links

• Cemetery Junction in IMDb

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