Hunky Dory (2011)

Directors

Marc Evans

Cast

Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Robert Pugh, Haydn Gwynne, Danielle Branch, Steve Speirs

The story

Set in a Welsh comprehensive school during the summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights general teenage apathy to put on a glam rock musical version of Shakespeare's The Tempest of which David Bowie (whose album provides the name of the film) might be proud. To engage her totally lackadaisical students and get them to explore and express their emotions, Vivienne uses pop hits of the time performed by a fresh young cast led by Davey. She hopes her more liberal approach to learning might stir them to discover they could be good at something, once they let their inhibitions go, and might actually have fun creating something; they…

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