Imagine my surprise today when I received my May issue of Elle Magazine only to be browsing through ogling the jewelry and latest fashions when I notice Ed at the top right hand of the reviews page. It’s a good review and description about what the movie is about, I suggest reading it.

Maybe it’s me but I was so excited that they featured a photo of Ed from the movie since I have yet to see any.

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- Elle Magazine Scan

Son Of Rambow (12A)
Damon Smith
31/ 3/2008

95 mins. Comedy/Drama. Bill Milner, Will Poulter, Jessica Stevenson, Neil Dudgeon, Jules Sitruk, Ed Westwick. Director: Garth Jennings. Released: April 4 (UK & Ireland).

FOR those of us who lived through the ’80s (with tattered Polaroids to recall the glaring fashion faux pas), it was the decade of leg warmers and Space Dust popping furiously on the tongue.

“Frankie Say” T-shirts were the political statement of choice, while men emulated the pastel linen suits of Miami Vice’s Crockett and Tubbs.

Children swapped lick-on tattoos and scented erasers, and the Rubik’s Cube became a worldwide phenomenon along with the repulsive Cabbage Patch Kids.

Son Of Rambow is a delightful coming of age story harking back to those days of kitsch attire, even kitscher pop music and Bucks Fizz losing their skirts at Eurovision.

Garth Jennings’ adorable comedy centres on lonely Will Proudfoot (Milner), whose mother Mary (Stevenson) is a member of the strictly religious Plymouth Brethren and forbids him from corruptive influences like film, television and the radio.

Consequently, Will retreats from his classmates into his sketchbook, where he conjures imaginary worlds.

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