Pebble and the Boy, The

[Available Nov. 16 on various VOD platforms.] After a grieving 19-year-old Englishman (Patrick McNamee) in Manchester inherits a rearview-mirror-laden Lambretta scooter upon the death of his estranged father in a traffic accident in Chris Green's engaging, low-budget, heartwarming, slow-paced, star-dotted (Jesse Birdsall, Ricci Harnett, Patsy Kensit, Max Boast, and Mani), 101-minute film, which pays tribute to Mod culture and Paul Weller and The Jam music, he is joined by the free-spirited, feisty daughter (Sacha Parkinson) of a mechanically inclined friend (Stuart Wolfenden) of his father's who repaired his motorbike when he goes on a road trip to Brighton to scatter his dad's ashes on the beach.
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