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Studio: United Artists Films
Release Date: Aug 9, 2002
Running Time: 115 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
starring: Steve Coogan, Keith Allen, Robert Brydon, Enzo Cilenti, Ron Cook, Chris Coghill, Paddy Considine, Danny Cunningham, Dave Gorman, Sean Harris
director: Michael Winterbottom
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Spanning from the 1970's to early 1990's, this is the story of the Manchester music scene... 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 an unknown band called 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 and the Hacienda Club, and bands like Joy Division, New Order, and the Happy Mondays emerge to change the industry forever.
Other reviews
July 8, 2002
Here's the real deal in a rock movie. It's a fractured fever dream that looks at the British music scene through the drug-glazed eyes of Tony Wilson, played with hurricane force and bruising wit by Steve Coogan. Remember the name. Brits know Coogan as the chat-show host Alan Partridge, a character he plays for laughs on the local telly. Most Yanks don't know him at all, but we will after this. Calling Coogan's performance dynamite doesn't do him or the movie justice. Wilson is the Manchester TV…
January 14, 2003
Michael Winterbottom's pitch-perfect docudrama re-creates the drug-fueled rock scene in Manchester, England, the industrial-blight backwater that spawned bands such as Joy Division/New Order and Happy Mondays. But it's chiefly the story of the self-mythologizing television reporter and scene-maker Tony Wilson -- played by Brit TV comic Steve Coogan -- who almost single-handedly built the bridge from punk to rave. WILL DANA
(January 14, 2003) 
The true story of maverick Manchester, England-based TV personality Tony Wilson, who by chance stumbled upon an unknown band called the Sex Pistols in the mid-'70s and went on to become a key but unsavvy promoter of punk rock via his club and record label. Story Cambridge-educated Tony Wilson is a young but established TV journalist in Manchester who is fed up with his silly assignments, be they hang-gliding adventures or an interview with a midget who cares for elephants. When one evening he… cast + crew
Director
Tony Wilson
Roger Ames
Ryan Letts
Pete Saville
Derek Ryder
Mark "Bez" Berry
Rob Gretton
Shaun Ryder
John the Postman
Ian Curtis
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