Danny the Champion of the World

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TitleDanny the Champion of the World
User score

6.2

Release dateApr 29, 1989
GenreDrama
DirectorGavin Millar
Production countryUnited Kingdom
Production companiesChildren's Film Foundation (CFF), Thames Television, Portobello Pictures
Run time99 min.

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.

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