"Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) and Lee Carter (Will Poulter) have nothing in common besides being 11 years old. Shy, lonely Will belongs to the Plymouth Brethren religious sect that makes no allowances for such worldly distractions as television or movies. Lee is the class hellion, an aggressive kid who probably spends more time in detention than in class. But a chance encounter between the two leads to an unlikely friendship and a burgeoning partnership as junior auteurs in Garth Jennings' hysterically funny, yet terrifically sweet homage to childhood and movies in the wonderful SON OF RAMBOW.

Jennings was only 11 himself when the original Rambo movie, FIRST BLOOD, came out, and the writer/director who would go on to co-found the Hammer & Tongs video outfit and to direct the lively big-screen adaptation of THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, pays tribute to the influence Sylvester Stallone's violent action hero had on his life. When Will accidentally watches a pirated video of FIRST BLOOD, he is entranced, imagining himself as the "son of Rambow." That fits in perfectly with Carter's plan to make a movie to enter into a young filmmaker's competition. He recruits Will as both actor and stunt man in a series of dangerous gags, any one of which looks like it might lead to Will's death by misadventure.

There is more, of course, such as the way the project sets Will on a collision course with his family's religious beliefs, to the consternation of his widowed mother, Mary (Jessica Stevenson). Carter, too, has family troubles, with a neglectful, globetrotting mother and an older brother resentful of his babysitting role. Then there's Didier (Jules Sitruk), the older French exchange student—the coolest kid in school—who catches wind of the project and decides he wants to be part of it, to Will's delight and Carter's disgust.

What is readily apparent in all of this is that Jennings remembers exactly what it was like to be a movie-mad kid. Will and Carter's adventures may be exaggerated, but there is also the ring of truth in the idea of these little boys making like pint-sized Cecil B. DeMilles as they mount their own epic. The friendship that develops between the pair plays true, as well; for as different as they are, each is isolated, both at home and at school. Beneath their disparate surfaces, they have everything in common.

This was supposed to be Jennings' feature debut, but it turned out to be easier to finance the much bigger Hitchhiker's Guide than this more modest affair. That under-appreciated first effort was a lot of fun, but Son of Rambow is the superior film. Money might buy bigger toys, but it can never replace heart, and that is something this terrific comedy has in abundance." — Pam Grady, Reel.com

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