The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 94% of the 2,452 2000s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Metacritic85/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
532 audience votes
Key crew
- Michael WinterbottomDirector
- Frank Cottrell BoyceScreenplay
Cast
- Steve CooganTony Wilson
- Lennie JamesAlan
- Paddy ConsidineRob
- Shirley HendersonLindsay
- Andy SerkisMartin
- John SimmBernard
- Ralf LittleHooky
- Danny CunninghamShaun
- Sean HarrisIan
- Kate MagowanYvette
- John ThomsonCharles
- Peter KayDon Tonay
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Themes
northern englandbased on novel or book1970snightclubclubbingcelebrationmanchestersatiricalmusic
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