Directed by:
Sally PotterScreenplay:
Sally PotterCinematography:
Robbie RyanCast:
Elle Fanning, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Alice Englert, Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Annette Bening, Jodhi May, Andrew Hawley, Oliver Milburn (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
London, 1962. Two teenage girls - GINGER & ROSA - are inseparable. They skip school together, talk about love, religion and politics and dream of lives bigger than their mothers' domesticity. But the growing threat of nuclear war casts a shadow over their lives. Ginger is drawn to poetry and protest, while Rosa shows Ginger how to smoke cigarettes, kiss boys and pray. Both rebel against their mothers: Rosa's single mum, Anoushka, and Ginger's frustrated painter mother, Natalie. Meanwhile, Ginger's pacifist father, Roland seems a romantic, bohemian figure to the girls. He encourages Ginger's 'Ban-the-Bomb' activism, while Rosa starts to take a very different interest in him. Finally, as the Cuban Missile Crisis escalates - and it seems the world itself may come to an end - the lifelong friendship of the two girls is shattered. Ginger clutches at one hope; if she can help save the world from extinction, perhaps she too will survive this moment of personal devastation. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Elle Fanning
USA
Best movies:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Lost Room (2006) (series)
Trumbo (2015)
Alessandro Nivola
USA
Best movies:
The Company (2007) (series)
Face Off (1997)
Goal! (2005)
Christina Hendricks
USA
Best movies:
Detachment (2011)
Drive (2011)
Toy Story 4 (2019)
Alice Englert
New Zealand
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8 (2008)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Timothy Spall
UK
Best movies:
The King's Speech (2010)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Oliver Platt
Canada
Best movies:
X-Men: First Class (2011)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Benny & Joon (1993)
Annette Bening
USA
Best movies:
American Beauty (1999)
Mother and Child (2009)
Valmont (1989)
Jodhi May
UK
Best movies:
Warriors (1999) (TV movie)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Max and Helen (1990) (TV movie)
Andrew Hawley
UK
Best movies:
Wuthering Heights (2009) (TV movie)
Inspector Lewis (2006) (series)
Ginger & Rosa (2012)
Oliver Milburn
UK
Best movies:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1998) (TV movie)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
The Browning Version (1994)
Francesca Bennett
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Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
About Time (2013)
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Greg Bennett
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Marcus Shakesheff
Best movies:
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014)
Accident Man (2018)
Richard Strange
UK
Best movies:
Batman (1989)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)
Brock Everitt-Elwick
Best movies:
Don Bosco (2004) (TV movie)
The Lost Prince (2003) (TV movie)
Ginger & Rosa (2012)