Sunshine On Leith [2013] [DVD] [2017]

Love the proclaimers and the film uses their music so well. Fantastic

It's one of my husbands favourite films, so was bought as a gift for him, to watch when I'm not around, as I really can't stand it.

Loved the feel- good factor..

What I liked most was the cinema photography. I grew up in Edinburgh and the film showed it at its best - not the grey, damp “auld reekie” that I grew up in the ‘50s and early 60s. Even my American wife, who is doesn’t normally agree with everything I say, agreed it was beautiful. The next thing I liked were the songs - which are beautiful songs and were intertwined through the plot which made them seem quite fitting. The casting was good and the actors were convincing. The only thing which jarred with me was the comment about the girl saying the boy she had gone out on a date with was weird. “He was a Scientologist” she says by way of an explanation. As someone who has been a Scientologist since 1969 I was affronted and wondered what an outcry there would have been if she had said “He was a Jew” or “He was a Muslim”. But there we are. It didny ruin the film for me. I loved the final scene at the bottom of Mound on Princess Street. I grew up in Northumberland Street , ten minutes from that location and spent much of my childhood walking around Princess Street Gardens, Waverly Station, the Castle, Royal Mile, the Bridges and that whole area. I went to School in Morningside (George Watsons) and. supported the Hibes and so those references in the film to those subjects resonated with me. It’s a film I will watch again. I don’t watch many films a second time!

Enjoyed this movie

Love the setting, been to Edinburgh regularly and it always has a feel good factor, This comes across in the film. And great sound track, even though I never used to be keen on the Proclaimers, but the first time I saw the film changed my mind.Film makes you Happy and Sad.

It was great watching this again. Great songs from the past.

An uplifting film that leaves you laughing and smiling and singing the songs. Excellent.

La bande son des Proclaimers est parfaite. Le film et l'histoire créés à partir de leurs chansons font " le job". Ce n'est qu'en VO, mais si l'anglais ne vous fait pas peur, acheter le

I have not seen, or had even heard the songs that the movie used from THE PROCLAIMERS. I am from the United States and ordered a copy of the film through Amazon. It would not play on my DVD player (which really is an XBOX 360 anyway), but it DID play on my computer. So it would be great, for the film to be more easily distributed in the States, but you can still order through Amazon and find a device to play it on (in my case a laptop) if you are really determined to see it in the US. I found out about the film, by being exposed and watching other work of Antonia Thomas who plays Yvonne in Sunshine on Leith. She is very brilliant and talented, and her work is the most I've enjoyed an actress's since Ellen Page (more Page's early stuff than now). And I was surprised (yet not overly surprised - via the skills she displayed in other things I had seen her in) that Ms. Thomas's singing ability is as stunning and talented as the rest of her. The rest of cast was great too: George MacKay, Kevin Guthrie, Jane Horrocks, Peter Mullan, Freya Mavor, etc., they were all wonderful. The songs were very catchy and beautiful lyrically, and the pacing of the film was very well done in addition to the rest. All the actors did a splendid job singing and acting. The story itself dealt with all the familiar themes of love, circumstance, illness, age and even touched on war - and how people interact and cope with each other and those trials along the way. But the mood was light, and heart filling - the lyrics and singing hopeful and filled with love. As others have said, it was just a feel good, well done, love and fun filled piece of art, that is worth anyone's time who has time to watch, and doesn't mind a little singing with their movie.

I love Edinburgh, Scotland, and with this film being shot there (Leith is the port district of the city), how could I resist the opportunities to see the streets and buildings of that wonderful city! Though the premise of the story - young soldiers returning from war to reunite with their loved ones - may sound serious, there is a prevailing seam of joyful fun that runs through the story from start to finish. Indeed, possibly it is that fact that the genuine folk of Edinburgh and the music of Scots band The Proclaimers (the 'Sunshine on Leith' title is from their hit album) are so much fun that one can't help but feel a part of the celebratory vibe that closes out the film with a huge cast singing and dancing to 'I Would Walk 500 Miles...'. Oh yes, there is a bit of a musical theme to the film, with the occasional break out into song (all Proclaimers tunes), but don't let the term 'musical' deter you, because this is anything but a stiff and staid music.If you're curious, watch the trailer(s) on YouTube. There is, indeed, Sunshine on Leith.

No es edición USA sino edición Reino Unido (UK) Preferible en sonido (DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 ch 48kHZ entre 3.5/4.5 Mbps) en caso de verla con home cinema, mucho más consistente y lleno de detalle , a la edición blu-ray española (que es audio Dolby Digital,aunque en la caratula ponga DTS HD Master Audio) .subtítulos en inglés opcionales. Sin embargo, extras solo trae escenas eliminadas mientras que la edición de españa trae 20 minutos de como se hizo,trailer.. Yo compré la española y ahora la UK por el mucho mejor audio

Wer die Stadt Edinburgh liebt (oder lieben lernen will) und mit der Musik der Proclaimers (500 Miles) etwas anfangen kann, sollte sich diesen Film unbedingt anschauen. Es ist im Grunde ein Musical, aber ich - selbst kein Musical-Fan - finde, dass die Musik sich sehr glaubwürdig in die Handlung einfügt und es im Großen und Ganzen nicht so wirkt, als würde jemand in einer x-beliebigen Situation anfangen zu singen. Musik: toll. Darsteller: sehr süß. Panorama: unvergesslich. Mein Geheimtipp, ich werde auch noch mehr bestellen, um sie zu verschenken. Nur mit schottischem Englisch sollte man klarkommen, weil (noch) keine synchronisierte Fassung zu haben ist.