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Director: Maxim Ford
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From Time Out Film Guide
A documentary that takes the Rainbow concerts at the end of the Jobs Express march as its springboard. The musical interludes lighten an otherwise relentless parade of disaffected youth whose hopes of getting a job are as low as the interest shown in them by the Tory Government. Videoed off the TV screen, the rhetoric of such government bods as Tebbit is set against that of the country's young as they outline their grievances. Perhaps their over-familiar points of argument would be more incisive and less repetitive with a bit of judicious editing; and perhaps if the makers had tried to provide a concrete answer to their problems, this film would be more than the worthy but - alas - boring piece of work it is.Author: FL
Cast & crew
Director: Maxim Ford
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Cast: The Beat, Black Slate, Tom Robinson, Barry Ford, OK Jive, Martin Besserman, Alexei Sayle full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 78 mins
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