2010 film by Richard Ayoade
Not to be confused with the 2010 Danish film
Submarino
.
Submarine
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Directed by
| Richard Ayoade
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Written by
| Richard Ayoade
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Based on
| Submarine
by
Joe Dunthorne
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Produced by
| - Mary Burke
- Mark Herbert
- Andy Stebbing
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Starring
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Cinematography
| Erik Wilson
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Edited by
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Music by
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companies
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Distributed by
| Optimum Releasing
(United Kingdom)
The Weinstein Company
(United States)
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Release dates
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- 12 September 2010
(
2010-09-12
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(
TIFF
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- 18 March 2011
(
2011-03-18
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(United Kingdom)
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- 3 June 2011
(
2011-06-03
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(United States: limited)
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Running time
| 97 minutes
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Countries
| - United Kingdom
- United States
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Language
| English
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Budget
| $1.5 million
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Box office
| $4.6 million
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Submarine
is a 2010
coming-of-age
comedy-drama
film written and directed by
Richard Ayoade
and starring
Craig Roberts
,
Yasmin Paige
,
Noah Taylor
,
Paddy Considine
and
Sally Hawkins
. It was adapted from the 2008 novel
Submarine
by
Joe Dunthorne
, and is an international co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Submarine
is Ayoade's directorial debut.
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Plot
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Oliver Tate is an unpopular 15-year-old who is infatuated with classmate Jordana. After Oliver teases another girl to get Jordana's attention, she invites him to meet secretly after school and takes pictures of them kissing. Jordana uses the pictures to make her ex-boyfriend Mark jealous; Mark roughs up Oliver, but Oliver refuses to say that Jordana is a slut. Jordana becomes Oliver's girlfriend and, after a couple of weeks, they have sex in his bedroom while his parents are out.
At home, Oliver becomes concerned about his parents. His father, Lloyd, is depressed. New-age guru Graham, an ex-boyfriend of his mother, Jill, has moved in next door, and his flirtations rouse Oliver's suspicions.
Oliver's relationship with Jordana grows, but he learns that her mother has a potentially fatal brain tumour. At an early Christmas dinner at Jordana's house, he witnesses her father break down. Unsettled, he decides that the Jordana he loves is at risk because the emotional events surrounding her will "make her gooey in the middle." Rather than visit Jordana's mother in hospital, as he has promised to, he loses his nerve and cuts off contact.
Thinking that his mother and Graham are having an affair, Oliver attempts to repair his parents' relationship. While searching for his mother on the beach, he is stunned to see Jordana with another boy. Walking home, dejected, he sees his mother with Graham and assumes the worst. Enraged, he breaks into Graham's house, gets drunk, and commits minor acts of vandalism. When Graham comes home, he finds Oliver but returns him home with minimal fuss. The next morning, Oliver awakes to see that both his parents aren't angry with him and are reconciling.
Oliver remains distraught about losing Jordana; he is downhearted for weeks, until he sees her on the beach. He runs to her and apologizes, learning that Jordana does not actually have a new boyfriend. Together, they walk several inches deep into the sea, smiling.
Cast
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Casting
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Michael Sheen
and
X Factor
contestant
Lucie Jones
were originally cast in the film but dropped out due to other commitments.
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Filming
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The film was produced by
Warp Films
and
Film4 Productions
.
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Principal photography began on 26 October 2009 and filming finished in December 2009. Filming locations in Wales included Swansea, Cardiff, Rhondda, and Barry.
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Soundtrack
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Six original songs were written and performed by
Alex Turner
, the frontman of
Arctic Monkeys
.
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The soundtrack charted at 35 in the UK Album Chart.
The original score was composed by
Andrew Hewitt
, long-time collaborator of Ayoade, recorded at Air Studios with The Composers Ensemble orchestra.
Release
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The film premiered at the
35th Toronto International Film Festival
in September 2010.
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Following a generally positive reception it was picked up by
The Weinstein Company
for a North American release.
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The film also played at the
54th London Film Festival
in October 2010 and was played out of competition at the
27th Sundance Film Festival
in January 2011.
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It was also screened along with 400 other films at the
61st Berlin International Film Festival
the next month.
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Critical reception
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Submarine
received positive reviews from critics. On
Rotten Tomatoes
, the film has a score of 88% based on reviews from 156 critics, with an average score of 7.4/10. The website's critics consensus: "Funny, stylish, and ringing with adolescent truth,
Submarine
marks Richard Ayoade as a talent to watch."
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At
Metacritic
, which assigns a
weighted average
score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 76 based on 37 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Critic
Roger Ebert
gave the film 3/4 stars saying "
Submarine
isn't an insipid teen sex comedy. It flaunts some stylistic devices, such as titles and sections and self-aware narration, but it doesn't try too hard to be desperately clever. It's a self-confident work for the first-time director, Richard Ayoade, whose purpose I think is to capture that delicate moment in some adolescent lives when idealism and trust lead to tentative experiments. Because Craig Roberts and Yasmin Paige are enormously likable in their roles, they win our sympathy and make us realize that too many movies about younger teenagers are filtered through the sensibility of more weathered minds."
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