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Tommy

1975

Ken Russell

Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Paul Nicholas ...

6.5

2,720

Musical

Musical

Cpt. Walker's plane is shot down during World War 2 and he is presumed dead. His widow Nora meets Frank Hobbs and they are quick to get married. However, one day Cpt. Walker comes home and his son Tommy sees his murder. This causes him to go deaf, mute and blind. But he sees himself beckoning him from every mirror, and Tommy follows to a device that will change his life, a pinball machine.

	Media	Author	Review
		Vincent Canby The New York Times	"Mad, funny, irreverent, passionately overproduced, very very loud... (...) It's all fairly excessive and far from subtle, but in this case good taste would have been wildly inappropriate and a fearful drag."
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"When Brit cinema mostly opted for dullness, Ken Russell was showing us a film that was daring and risky and mad (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[Russell] gives us one glorious excess after another (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Time	"One thing is sure: there has never been a movie musical quite like 'Tommy', a weird, crazy, wonderfully excessive version of The Who's rock opera."
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"The results are somewhere between the apocalypse and Andy Warhol. This 1975 film's inventiveness begins to flag about halfway through, but by then it's a relief."
		Variety	"Spectacular in nearly every way. The enormous appeal of the original 1969 record album by The Who has been complemented in a superbly added visual dimension."
		Time Out	"This is both the movie in which [Russell] is most faithful to the ideas and tone of his material, and one of his very worst films."

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