Fresh
How much you enjoy 24 Hour Party People, director Michael Winterbottom's raucous look at the Manchester, England music scene of the '80s, probably depends on your background.
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
24 Hour Party People
Share the Ecstacy!
2002 · 1h 57m · R
Comedy, Drama, Music
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Michael Winterbottom Director
- Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson
- John Thomson as Charles
- Lennie James as Alan Erasus
- Sean Harris as Ian Curtis
- Shirley Henderson as Lindsay Wilson
- Martin Hancock as Howard DeVoto
- Mark Windows as Johnny Rotten
- Paddy Considine as Rob Gretton
- John Simm as Bernard Sumner
- Dave Gorman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
Coogan, as the consummate overeducated, overly-erudite opinion leader, is spot-on perfect.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
A real party, but it's hard to keep track of the guests.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fresh
Even if you have never heard of the Mondays, whose members swiftly self-destructed in Ecstasy and excess, or of Tony Wilson, the entrepreneur the film is about, you may find yourself drawn into the vortex created by director Michael Winterbottom.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
Fresh
It's inaccurate to pin Manchester's rise as a musical mecca wholly on one person, but Wilson makes for a fascinating character study, and he's drolly played by Coogan.
Evelyn McDonnell, Miami Herald
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