The Old Oak
It's not where you're from, it's what you bring.
A pub landlord in a previously thriving mining community struggles to hold onto his pub. Meanwhile, tensions rise in the town when Syrian refugees are placed in the empty houses in the community.
- 7.2
- 2023
- Released
- 1h 53m
Dave Turner
TJ Ballantyne
Ebla Mari
Yara
Claire Rodgerson
Laura
Trevor Fox
Charlie
Chris McGlade
Vic
Col Tait
Eddy
Jordan Louis
Gary
Chrissie Robinson
Erica
Chris Gotts
Jaffa CakeJen Patterson
MaggieArthur Oxley
ArchieJoe Armstrong
JoeAndy Dawson
Micky
Maxie Peters
TommyRosa Crowley-Bennett
Union SupporterBobby Beldrum
Union SupporterAmna Al Ali
FatimaYazan Al Shteiwi
BashirDiyaa Al Khalid
SalimRahaf H
Nadia
Neil Leiper
Rocco
Micky McGregor
Estate Agent
Rhys Mcgowan
Boy with Dog
Reuben Bainbridge
Boy with DogJack Staples
Boy with DogRuby Bratton
LindaMichelle Bell
MollyAlex White
Max
Debbie Honeywood
HairdresserMandy Foster
HairdresserJoanne Hague
HairdresserDebbie Cook
HairdresserChris Braxton
SadieJake Jarratt
TonyAli Mohamed
Syrian Boy in VideoDiala
Iman Awad Hamdan
Hasna Hassoun
Rabia Hassoun
Sabah Hassoun
Rana Ihsan
Ahmad Ihsan
Imad Kanaan
Jamal Al Khalaf
Islam Al Khalid
Khuloud Mohammad Al Ali Lana
Anas Mahmoud
Moamar Mahmoud
Yousef Al Masri
Hadiya Al Salih
Jamila Al Salih
Abdelkafi Al Shteiwi
Hanidi Aba Zied
Cath Armstrong
Val Barron
Sarah Bryson
Paul Dent
Chris Fallows
Steve Fergus
Josh Hulley
Gary Kitching
Rob Kirtley
Older NeighbourAbigail Lawson
Michelle
Kika Markham
Aidan Pearn
Stuart Ramsay
Heather Wood
Andrea Johnson
Amy (uncredited)Lloyd Mullings
Garry's Pal (uncredited)Laura Lee Daly
Rosie (uncredited)
Released
en
$7,702,015.00
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- #community
- #working class
- #sympathy
- #syrian refugee
- #north of england
- #pub
- #empathetic
Reviews
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Set in a rapidly fading Northern English mining town, this tells the tale of an attempt to integrate some Syrian refugees fleeing the terror in their own country into a community that it still reeling from the systematic closure of their own livelihoods. Much of the story is based around the run-down "Old Oak" boozer which is run by the relatively open-minded "TJ" (Trevor Fox) who is pretty much a