The original score was composed by Andrew Hewitt, long-time collaborator of Ayoade, recorded at Air Studios with The Composers Ensemble orchestra.Submarine is a 2010 British-American 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. The soundtrack charted at 35 in the UK Album Chart. Original songs were written and performed by Alex Turner, the frontman of Arctic Monkeys. The film grossed $467,602 in the USA, plus $3,407,282 outside the USA, for a combined gross of $3,874,884. 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." Box office 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. 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. Critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3/4 stars saying " Submarine isn't an insipid teen sex comedy. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 86% based on reviews from 146 critics, with the consensus: "Funny, stylish, and ringing with adolescent truth, Submarine marks Richard Ayoade as a talent to watch." 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". Submarine received positive reviews from critics. It was also screened along with 400 other films at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival the next month. 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. Following a generally positive reception it was picked up by The Weinstein Company for a North American release. The film premiered at the 35th Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. Michael Sheen and X Factor contestant Lucie Jones were originally cast in the film but dropped out due to other commitments. CastingĪround 100 actors submitted video auditions for the roles of Oliver, Jordana, and Chips. Andrew Hewitt composed the score and musician Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys contributed six songs. Principal photography began on 26 October 2009 and filming finished in December 2009. The film was produced by Warp Films and Film4 Productions. Ben Stiller as Soap Opera Star (Uncredited).Together, they walk several inches deep into the sea, smiling. Running towards her, he explains his actions and learns that Jordana has either broken up with her new boyfriend or never had one. Oliver remains distraught about losing Jordana he is downhearted for weeks, until he sees her on the beach. The next morning, Oliver awakes to see that both his parents aren't angry with him and are reconciling. When Graham comes home, he finds Oliver but returns him home with minimal fuss. Enraged, he breaks into Graham's house, gets drunk, and commits minor acts of vandalism. Heartbroken he heads home but, on the way, he sees his mother with Graham and assumes the worst. While searching for his mother on the beach, he sees Jordana with another boy. Thinking that his mother and Graham are having an affair, Oliver attempts to repair his parents' relationship. Unsettled, he decides that the Jordana he loves is at risk because the emotional events surrounding her will " make her gooey in the middle". At an early Christmas dinner at Jordana's house, he witnesses her father break down. Oliver's relationship with Jordana grows, but he learns that her mother has a potentially fatal brain tumour. New-age guru Graham (Paddy Considine), an ex-boyfriend of his mother, Jill (Sally Hawkins), has moved in next door, and his flirtations rouse Oliver's suspicions. His father, Lloyd (Noah Taylor), is depressed. Jordana soon becomes his girlfriend and after a couple of weeks they have sex in his bedroom whilst his parents are out.Īt home, Oliver becomes concerned about his parents. He reacts by putting Oliver in a headlock and punching him at school whilst they are surrounded by other pupils. When Jordana invites Oliver to meet secretly after school, she takes pictures of them kissing, hoping to make her ex-boyfriend jealous. In 1986 in Swansea, unpopular Oliver Tate (played by Craig Roberts) is a 15-year-old who is infatuated with classmate Jordana (Yasmin Paige).
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