The Old Oak
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.
Cast
Dave Turner
as TJ Ballantyne
Ebla Mari
as Yara
Claire Rodgerson
as Laura
Trevor Fox
as Charlie
Chris McGlade
as Vic
Col Tait
as Eddy
Jordan Louis
as Gary
Chrissie Robinson
as Erica
Chris Gotts
as Jaffa Cake
Jen Patterson
as Maggie
Reviews
CinemaSerf
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-dow...
Brent Marchant
A lack of familiarity can produce so many needless problems, especially when it involves individuals about whom we know little or nothing. That lack of understanding can consequently yield issues that plainly aren’t warranted and, more importantly, can be easily dispensed with by simply taking the t...
