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24 Hour Party People
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- 2001
- Michael Winterbottom
- 112 mins
- 18
Summary
Biographical comedy drama starring Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson, the TV presenter and impresario behind Manchester's Factory Records and world-famous Hacienda nightclub.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Andrew Collins
Prolific director Michael Winterbottom is unafraid of mythologising a slice of recent musical/cultural history in this comedy drama, which tells the story of the rise and fall of Manchester's Factory Records and the world-famous Hacienda nightclub. Using TV presenter and Factory impresario Tony Wilson to tell the tale - often directly to camera - is the movie's masterstroke. Wilson, played with relish by Steve Coogan, was in real life a self-publicist of gigantic proportions, so when he compares shambolic Happy Mondays singer Shaun Ryder (an uncanny impersonation by Danny Cunningham) to WB Yeats, you take it with a pinch of salt but buy into it anyway. Unlikely to make sense to anyone who didn't experience the music and mania of the "Madchester" years - and yet bound to enrage those who were there with its flippant abuse of documentary truth - this is an infectious, well-cast blend of evocative energy, fine vintage music and irreverent humour.
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rolenameTony WilsonSteve CooganAlan ErasmusLennie JamesLindsay WilsonShirley HendersonRob GrettonPaddy ConsidineMartin HannettAndy SerkisIan CurtisSean HarrisBernard SumnerJohn SimmPeter HookRalf LittleShaun RyderDanny CunninghamBezChris CoghillPaul RyderPaul PopplewellRoger AmesKeith AllenRyan LettsRob BrydonPete SavilleEnzo CilentiDerek RyderRon CookJohn the postmanDave GormanDon TonayPeter KayJournalistSimon PeggCharles, Granada TV producerJohn ThomsonTV directorTony WilsonBoethiusChristopher EcclestonPunterMark E SmithCleanerHoward DevotoPelPaul RyderActor in corridorMargi ClarkeCloakroom girlFiona AllenSecond railway guardClint BoonChris NagleMartin CooganHoward DevotoMartin HancockMorrisseyJames Cartwright
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rolenameDirectorMichael Winterbottom
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Theatrical distributor
Pathe{acute}
Released on
2002-04-05
Languages
English
Guidance
Swearing, drug abuse, nudity.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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