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Actors: Steve Coogan, Sean Harris
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This film shows the history of contemporary Manchester music from punk to rave in digestible film format. The film centers around Tony Wilson (Coogan) television presenter turned promoter who becomes inspired to start a label after seeing the Sex Pistols perform. 24 Hour Party People traces his odyssey to bring music to the masses through signing and struggling with bands including Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays. Wilson also fights to find a venue, and thus opens the Hacienda Club – which eventually became the “Mad-chester” rave-era equivalent of Studio 54. The plot is barely fictionalized as it is based on Wilson's life and those of the people and bands around him. He acts as the narrator of his own life story. Excellent music with the obligatory sex, drugs and rock ‘n' roll. Not wholly a drama as it is very, very funny in parts with snappy dialogue.
Film directed by Michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo).
--ldpaulson, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- musician
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
City?
Yes
City:
- dirty, grimy (like New York)
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- kissing
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing and dancing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Modern rock/pop
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