2013 · music · comedy · drama
Sunshine on Leith
Directed by Dexter Fletcher1h 40m2013
Davy and Ally have to re-learn how to live life in Edinburgh after coming home from serving in Afghanistan. Both struggle to learn to live a life outside the army and to deal with the everyday struggles of family, jobs and relationships. Sunshine on Leith is based on the sensational stage hit of the same name, featuring music by pop-folk band The Proclaimers.
Our read: Sunshine on Leith (2013) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded music · comedy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle music / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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