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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792853947
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792853946
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 21, 2003
Running Time: 117 minutes
Sales Rank: 8191
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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"Magnificent" (The New York Times), "amazing" (Los Angeles Times) and "a blast" (Rolling Stone), this true story of the raucous anti-establishment explosion that revolutionized the music industry is "miraculous one of the smartest, liveliest, most engaging and involving works you're likely to see this year" (Premiere)! Blown away by an unknown local band called the Sex Pistols, TV personality Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan) is inspired to invent a uniquely anarchic record label. Soon he's promoting everyone from New Order to Happy Mondays on his newly formed Factory Records and partying like a rock star. From Tony's speedy rise to Factory's hedonistic fall, this "wonderful party of a movie stamps on a smiley face that will stay with you for hours" (New York Post)!
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An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial to this portrait as the wild successes. The soundtrack, of course, is superb. --Bret Fetzer
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First of all, if you have any interest in the Manchester music scene starting in '76 and ending just before Oasis hit, you need to watch this movie. Second of all, if you want to know more of the real story, watch the movie with the commentary by Tony Wilson. He tells some of what "really" happened, although he tells it with a favorable bent towards himself. It is still one of my favorite all time movies, and because of it I can't listen to "Atmosphere" without bursting into tears, both for Ian ... Read More
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"I don't want to say too much, don't want to spoil it. I'll just say one word: 'Icarus.' If you get it, great. If you don't, that's fine too. But you should probably read more."--Tony Wilson, introducing the film 24 Hour Party People.
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchester's Factory Records music scene between the years 1976 to 1997, featuring music by the phenomenal bands Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and the Happy Mondays, among others. The ... Read More
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Just great, and a lot of fun. This is a thoroughly British film about the 1980's Manchester scene that captures the energy of the Hacienda club days. The movie doesn't beg American audiences to know a lot about the music, though it helps to know a few hits by Joy Division and Happy Mondays. Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson is a bit of perfect casting. The band portrayals -- Sean Harris as Ian Curtis, especially -- are very good, and the cameos are fun to spot (Howard Devoto is a standout). The movie is intelligent, ... Read More
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First off R.I.P. Tony Wilson (he died 8-11-07)... I just can not put into words how great this movie is. The dark portrayal of Ian Curtis (look out for 'Closer' a movie about him in the US Oct 10-07) to the goofy druggers Happy Mondays, this is like 2 movies for the price of one. My favorite scene maybe in cinema history is when the actor Wilson is narrating a scene that we are watching of Vini Reilly (Duruti Column) walking out of a storage room . A non-sensible unrelating 'cameo' to the movie's plot at first, ... Read More
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A mandatory item for New Order fans like me.
Nothing else is necessary to be said. Just watch it!
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