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24 Hour Party People

2002

Michael Winterbottom

Steve Coogan, Paddy Considine, Shirley Henderson, Lennie James ...

7.1

13,581

Musical. Comedy. Drama Manchester 1976: Cambridge educated Tony Wilson, Granada TV presenter, is at a Sex Pistols gig. Totally inspired by this pivotal moment in music history, he and his friends set up a record label, Factory Records, signing first Joy Division (who go on to become New Order) then James and the Happy Mondays, who all become seminal artists of their time. What ensues is a tale of music, sex, drugs, larger-than-life characters, and the birth ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The movie works so well because it evokes genuine, not manufactured, nostalgia (...) It loves its characters. It understands what the Sex Pistols started, and what the 1990s destroyed (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn’t have liked it more."	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"Fabulous (...) Winterbottom's most consistent talent is matching his visual approach to the tone of the story"	POS
United Kingdom	Alan Morrison Empire	"Style reflects content as the director maintains a chaotic feel that is the Factory spirit in its most essential form (...) Rating :★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Rainer New York Magazine	"One of the sharpest and funniest movies about the music business ever made"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"A funny, unexpectedly inspiring story of excess, poor choices, and unwavering high-mindedness, all tied to that quintessential bit of rock wisdom: Icarus did fall, but first he flew"	POS
United States	Derek Elley Variety	"A true story of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, "24 Hour Party People" is a rough, gritty, often scabrously humorous tribute to a period when Manchester, England, was the epicenter of punk rock"	POS

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