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Summer of Rockets

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2019
  • 1h
IMDb RATING
7.0/10
2.3K
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Timothy Spall, Keeley Hawes, and Toby Stephens in Summer of Rockets (2019)
Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.
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Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.Cold war drama following a Russian Jewish inventor and his family living in Britain.

  • Stars
    • Toby Stephens
    • Keeley Hawes
    • Lily Sacofsky
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.0/10
    2.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Stars
      • Toby Stephens
      • Keeley Hawes
      • Lily Sacofsky
    • 72User reviews
    • 4Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Toby Stephens
    Toby Stephens
    • Samuel Petrukhin
    • 2019
    Keeley Hawes
    Keeley Hawes
    • Kathleen Shaw
    • 2019
    Lily Sacofsky
    • Hannah Petrukhin…
    • 2019
    Linus Roache
    Linus Roache
    • Richard Shaw
    • 2019
    Gary Beadle
    Gary Beadle
    • Courtney Johnson
    • 2019
    Toby Woolf
    Toby Woolf
    • Sasha Petrukhin
    • 2019
    Lucy Cohu
    Lucy Cohu
    • Miriam Petrukhin
    • 2019
    Mark Bonnar
    Mark Bonnar
    • Field
    • 2019
    Claire Bloom
    Claire Bloom
    • Aunt Mary
    • 2019
    Suanne Braun
    Suanne Braun
    • Matron Jeffrey
    • 2019
    Timothy Spall
    Timothy Spall
    • Lord Arthur Wallington
    • 2019
    Rose Ayling-Ellis
    Rose Ayling-Ellis
    • Esther
    • 2019
    Leo Staar
    Leo Staar
    • Denning
    • 2019
    Greg Austin
    Greg Austin
    • Anthony Shaw
    • 2019
    Peter Firth
    Peter Firth
    • Tezler
    • 2019
    Molly Casey
    • Ruth
    • 2019
    Safiyya Ingar
    Safiyya Ingar
    • Shirley
    • 2019
    Ronald Pickup
    Ronald Pickup
    • Walter
    • 2019
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    6philipfoxe

    Wanted to like this

    Poliakoff again! A very frustrating writer/director. Production values high... But... As usual... Unconvincing characters, stilted dialogue, and constant creation and maintenance of tension over inconsequential issues. How does he get work!?
    6pawebster

    Poliakoff pulls it off, mostly

    Mr P has toned down his usual artificiality, created a time and place that more or less convinces and put together an exciting plot with a real dénouement. He deserves kudos for managing all this after many years of not doing so. Perhaps all the BBC money they have thrown in his direction has started to pay off at last. Toby Stephens is excellent, as is Keeley Hawes (as usual). Everyone else is good too and little Toby Woolf is a delight. There are faults. Yes, there is a coherent dénouement but it's not without clichés (one particularly egregious one involving guns) and some sickly sweetness. Adrian Edmondson's TV shows are embarrassingly unfunny. The subplots, while interesting, are in fact superfluous. There is the one about the missing son, which is included, I guess,to give Keeley Hawes and Clare Bloom things to do. The daughter's daft scenes at Buckingham Palace and the expensive ball with hordes of debs are also of only tangential relevance.
    4aliefc

    Ridiculous

    Some of the themes were intriguing, and the cast did their best. However, the plot was so ridiculous that it undermined any of the positive qualities of the drama. By the end, very disappointing and not worth the viewing time
    4jasbir413

    Awful ending

    Without wishing to spoil the story for those that haven't seen this yet I shall just say that this was a great drama up until the last 20 mins. The ending is utterly ridiculous and unbelievable which is such a shame as the acting is superb as one would expect with such a cast. I'm actually baffled how Poliakoff managed to write such an appalling ending. it really is quite an achievement.
    random-70778

    Really this awful mess is BBC?

    I give this series two stars for good production values in costume and scenery design. In every other aspect it is dreadful Toby Stevens constant overacting worked ok in the cartoonish Black Sails, but has failed in everything else. The plot of summer of rockers is unengaging, and frankly juvenile. Lastly the heavy and forced political correctness puts the final nail in this mess.

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    • Trivia
      Summer of Rockets (2019) was originally announced in May 2017 alongside two other BBC mini-series commissions, which were the three-part Little Women (2017) and the three-part A Very English Scandal (2018).
    • Goofs
      Kathleen would smoke a lot more than one cigarette over the course of the summer.
    • Connections
      Referenced in The Graham Norton Show: Sally Field/Bill Pullman/Keeley Hawes/Matt Lucas/The Lumineers (2019)

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    • Release date
      • May 22, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Un espía entre nosotros
    • Production company
      • Little Island Productions
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      1 hour
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 16:9 HD

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