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Mood:
- GloomyCaptivatingAtmosphericBleakDisturbingBiting
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Plot:
- Rise and FallDestructive RelationshipAddictionArtists and ShowbizCrimesLife is a BitchLove and RomanceMind and Soul more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependentPeriodRomance
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century70s
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Place:
- EnglandLondonNew York
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedCult
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Based on:
- BiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Score:
- Punk
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Flag:
- Drugs/AlcoholNudityProfanityViolent Content
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Sid & Nancy, 1986
English
UK
Profile of Sid & Nancy
The mood of Sid & Nancy is gloomy, captivating, and biting. The plot centers around addiction, a rise and fall, and a destructive relationship. It is a drama, independent, and romance movie. In approach, Sid & Nancy is serious and realistic. The setting is London and New York. It happens in the 20th century. The musical score of Sid & Nancy is punk. It is drawn from a biography and originally a true story. The movie is known for being a cult favorite, an award winner, and critically acclaimed. Note that Sid & Nancy includes drugs/alcohol, nudity, and profanity.
Summary of Sid & Nancy
Alex Cox's riveting biopic tells the bleak, heroin-drenched story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his disturbed American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Gary Oldman delivers a bravura performance as Sid, matched by Chloe Webb's grating, clearly unhinged Nancy. The two lovers' childlike tenderness with each other contrasts sharply with their bleak, violent nihilism, and while the script implies that Nancy's death was accidental, the line between intention and accident is deliberately blurred. By turns romantic and horrific, SID & NANCY is often grueling to watch, but always compelling.
This followup to Cox's cult hit REPO MAN was another critical success, showing that the director was as comfortable with reality-based material as with the satirical fantasy of his first feature. His romantic vision draws us in while throwing us back in time to London and New York at the inception of the drug-laden British punk era. The film's dreamlike style and a hypnotic score dramatize the schism between Sid and Nancy's world and the world around them--and the inevitable horror when those worlds collide.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK |
| Release date: | 3 October 1986 |
| Runtime: | 112 min |
Cast and Crew
as Sid Vicious
as Nancy Spungen
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Users Reviews
- 17.March.2009
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- by: Caitlin
- Caitlin rated this movie
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