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Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do. Most of the 671 2020s music movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes35%
Metacritic43/100
Audiences rate it 20 points higher than critics do.
751 audience votes
Key crew
- Sam Taylor-JohnsonDirector
- Nick CaveOriginal Music Composer
- Warren EllisOriginal Music Composer
- Matt GreenhalghScreenplay
Cast
- Marisa AbelaAmy
- Jack O'ConnellBlake
- Eddie MarsanMitch
- Lesley ManvilleCynthia
- Juliet CowanJanis
- Sam BuchananNick Shymansky
- Pete Lee-WilsonPerfume Paul
- Thelma RubyGreat Auntie Renee
- Michael S. SiegelUncle Harold
- Matilda ThorpeAuntie Melody
- Anna DarvasShelley
- Tracey LushingtonJane
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Themes
biographyaddictionbased on true storyalcoholismmental illnesssinger-songwritersubstance abuse1980s1990salcohol problems2000ssoul music