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The North-East in recent times has been compared to Detroit; An area built on a now defunct industry and left to wreck and ruin by its loss. This is a short documentary about how Hartlepool deals with these problems and soldiers on through a sense of collective identity born of myth.
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I'll tell you why so serious
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I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
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It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional
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Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
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