Raining Stones

Synopsis: This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Ken Loach
Production: Koch Lorber Films
  8 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
1993
90 min
304 Views


Come on.

Tommy, I've got one

of the buggers.

Come on!

F***ing get one!

I've got one, Tom.

Come back!

Bloody job this!

Stay quiet, it

might come down.

There's one here on

its own.

This one on its

own.

Go round the back

of him.

Go round the back

of him slowly.

We've not come all this

way for f*** all.

Go round the back

of him slowly.

Oops...

Get it, lad!

Get it.

I've got the bastard!

You've got it!

Get it!

She'll get it!

Oh, we've got to

get hold of it!

I've got the bastard!

Hold it! Hold it!

I've got it!

What do I do with it?

Get hold of the scruff! Hold

it tight! Get hold of it!

Help me, will yer!

Hold it!

Come here!

Take it easy, will you, lad,

I've got no chance here...

Ah! There's sh*t

all over... look at this!

Watch that, it's

scalding hot, son...

I am knackered...

It just wants one good belt on the back

of the head, then it'll be stone dead.

Good hard... short,

sharp shock.

Come on,

let's give it a go.

Just wack it

across the napper.

Good heavy blow.

But where, though?

The back of the head, across

the shoulders, know what I mean?

Put plenty of force

into it, son.

Go on, go on,

go on, go on!

Just whack it.

Hit it on the head.

Look, look!

There's one thing...

What are you waiting for?

Hit it.

Listen, we could always

sell it as it is.

To that butcher, you're joking.

He'd rob us blind.

Give it a belt,

will you, Bob.

Oh, you know, you're so good at

giving the orders out, you do it.

Come on, when you

kill it, I'll skin it.

I'll peel that bleedin' fleece

off like peeling an orange.

Now just give it

a belt.

Come on son,

you belt it.

Get on this side.

Get on this side.

Oh, there's me

f***ing tea!

Jesus... hold

the bleedin' thing!

Tommy, I f***ing

got it!

I've got it.

Cor blimey, its' got

loads of bottle, ain't it.

What do you get off

of sheep, anyway?

Foot and mouth disease

unless you wear a condom.

Ah, very clever,

very droll. Yeah.

I'm serious here,

what do you get off it?

Mutton, you dopey bleeder. What

do you think you get off it?

Yeah, but what do

you mean? Show it me.

Get four legs,

don't you.

Couple of shoulders, all them chops,

feel the ribs there, all of them.

How many chops?

F***ing big bag

full.

Oh, serious. Come on, can't

you be serious for a minute?

Well count them, feel them.

Ten, eleven, twelve...

Hang on, hang on, one...

two...

three, four...

Don't be worrying, you'll be

getting your share. Come on.

Jesus Christ! Can you smell that?

I thought it was

you. It's farted!

Come on, let's get it

down there.

Hold onto it and I'll get

one good shot at its napper.

Have you got it?

Let's get it down then. Go

on, get hold of it. Smack it.

Go on!

How many times have you been

in that position with a sheep?

Never mind.

Come on, hit it.

F***ing hell!

I should have done this job on

me own. You're bleedin' hopeless.

And watch me.

Don't hit me.

Just give it.

Just give it one.

Ready?

Go on.

That's it. Go on!

F*** it. Let's take it

down the butchers.

Get hold of the back end.

You sh*t house.

You sh*t house...

Come on, you twat,

look up, look up.

Just give him a honk

on the horn.

Give over, with everybody's

eyes round here?

Here, I'll tell you what.

You get out, get in the butcher's

shop, I'll drive it round the back.

Go.

Be bloody quick, then.

It'll feed the whole bleedin' town,

I' telling you. Have a look at that.

Hello, Bob.

All right...

Ah! You're pulling

my pisser, aren't you?

What do you mean?

What I mean?

That's mutton, that.

Nobody wants mutton

these days, they want lamb.

Well it hasn't gone

out of fashion.

They're still eating it,

aren't they?

Yeah, of course.

I'm not saying that.

You're talking fourteen

quid there.

How much?

/Fourteen quid, if that.

I thought you said...

Hang on... last one I sold I

got thirty-odd pound for her.

Not sheep, lad.

On our kid's life!

Thirty-odd pound.

No.

This is another bollock

I've dropped now.

Is there nothing at all

you can do for us?

Well have a look at it.

It's massive.

Well, let's have a look

at it then, Bob.

Oh, Jesus!

Told you it was a big bastard,

isn't it?

Big bastard!

It f***ing stinks!

That's because it's been pissing and

shitting all up the sides of my van.

Oh, stop moaning!

F***ing hell! Can't do owt

with that.

We can't take it back

to the moors, can we?

Listen... listen are you going to f***ing

kill it for us, and chop it up or what?

Well, get it in back

of shop, then.

F***ing hell! Watch you don't

pull its f***ing head off.

I'd like to pull his head

off, I'm telling you.

I'd like to pull

yours off!

Do you know you, you've never

stopped moaning from this morning.

Come here...

Now listen, Bob.

I'll do this if you

put that fireplace in for us.

Fair enough, that sounds

okay. Yeah.

It's all plumbed in and

everything.

The bloke did it. I paid

him. Done a runner.

Well, you can't trust anyone,

that's fair enough lad, yeah, go on.

That's all right, yeah?

Yeah, okay, I'll do it.

Come on.

Come on lad, get its head

head over this bucket.

Okay Bob, get hold

of its ears.

Pull its ears back.

Go on.

Head back, keep

hold of him.

Just cut it.

Dirty bastard!

Jesus, he's cut its

f***ing throat!

Before I go to Communion...

I will listen carefully to

the priest at Mass.

I will tell God that

if I am sorry...

if I have spoilt my love

for Him...

by choosing something that

He does not want.

I have nothing to eat

or drink for one hour...

it is not a very long time

and it is to...

it is to remind me of the great

Son of God who will come.

Before I go to Communion...

I will listen carefully to

the priest at Mass.

I will tell God...

I want to grow up like Jesus...

and I want to meet Him

in Communion.

Very good. Very good.

Thank you, Coleen.

Thank you.

Now you see...

the Church, well we call it

Mother Church...

has decided that when a child

reaches the age of seven...

the age of reason...

it's time for the parents to prepare

them for their first Holy Communion.

So the parents must teach that child

about the loving family of God...

and that their first Communion marks the

beginning of a beautiful friendship with Christ.

I'll take the vault, lad.

Okay, I'll get 'the room'.

Jesus! You've started early,

haven't you?

Hello, girls. This could be your

lucky day.

Have a look in this basket.

Best mutton. Look at that.

Fresh as a daisy.

Two pound fifty the leg.

What do you mean 'no'?

A beautiful piece of meat, that.

No? You sure?

You don't eat meat?

/All right, love.

Hiya, mate.

Look at this bit of

flavour, eh...

look at this, real English mutton.

Look at that...

I'm sorry, mate.

I'm sorry, I'm skint.

Skint? I know exactly how

you feel, pal...

Can I do you a favour, lads?

Fair enough...

Hello folks, here you are,

have a look at this.

Real English mutton.

Look at that.

Beautiful leg of mutton.

Just done it before

I came in here.

Hiya, Walt!

Hiya Bob, you all right?

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