Pride
I’m really not sure how I came across Pride . I don’t know if it was from the Milwaukee Film Festival catalog. Or it could have been a recommended film on Netflix. Maybe it was a preview in the front of another film. As much as I like to know how I found something, in the end, does it really matter? Probably not. What matters is whether or not I think this is a good film. I do. It’s 1984 and the miners of Great Britain are on strike. They have been on strike for months, with no end in sight. To help the cause, a man by the name of Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) decides to form a group that will collect money for the miners. The group is called Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners. They are a group of gay men and a woman who figure out ways to collect money that will then be given to the miners, as they have been without pay for so long. While it seems giving the money they have collected away would be an easy thing t