Blinded by the Light
(2019)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 624 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 117 мин
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Viveik Kalra, Нелл Уильямс, Хейли Этвелл, Kulvinder Ghir, Aaron Phagura, Дин-Чарльз Чепмен, Meera Ganatra, Nikita Mehta, Tara Divina, Роб Брайдон
Plot
In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
In 1987 Britain, Javed Khan is a British-Pakistani college arts student in Luton in a family with a domineering father. Depressed by his oppressive family life and feeling he has no future in a hostile community, a newfound friend introduces Javed to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Touched by the rock star's powerfully eloquent affinity of his own feelings, Javed is inspired to reach out for his own dreams with his own talents. However, although Javed finds friends he never expected in this personal quest, he also finds himself butting heads with his newly unemployed father who stubbornly refuses to understand his son's new aspirations. In this conflict of values in a troubled time, Javed must decide what is truly important to him while his family struggles to understand what has changed and what remains with a new generation feeling born to run.