Tinker
6.3
1949
1 hr 10 min
Drama
, Documentary
Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job.
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Reviews
Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.
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It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
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Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
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Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
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