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Sid and Nancy
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Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto 'live fast and die young,' Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to chaos, and possessed a dangerous thirst for booze, drugs, and violence. Sid & Nancy opens shortly after Sid (Gary Oldman) joined the band, when he meets an obnoxious American punk groupie named Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Nancy claims that she can get drugs, and Sid naively gives her his money. Nancy doesn't show up with the goods, but when Sid runs into her a few days later, she has a tall tale about getting ripped off - and Sid sympathizes with her. Before long, Sid and Nancy have fallen in love, and while they argue with uncommon vehemence, they also depend completely on each other. When The Sex Pistols break up, Sid has few prospects and an increasingly voracious appetite for heroin, and Nancy's attempts to 'manage' his career only hasten his downhill slide. Former Clash leader Joe Strummer wrote the film's theme song, 'Love Kills,' and The Pogues, The Circle Jerks, and Pray for Rain contributed to the soundtrack.
Punk rock's first great embodiment of the motto 'live fast and die young,' Sid Vicious joined The Sex Pistols when they were already established as the most controversial rock band in British history; and it soon became apparent that he couldn't play his instrument, had a magnetic attraction to chaos, and possessed a dangerous thirst for booze, drugs, and violence. Sid & Nancy opens shortly after Sid (Gary Oldman) joined the band, when he meets an obnoxious American punk groupie named Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Nancy claims that she can get drugs, and Sid naively gives her his money. Nancy doesn't show up with the goods, but when Sid runs into her a few days later, she has a tall tale about getting ripped off - and Sid sympathizes with her. Before long, Sid and Nancy have fallen in love, and while they argue with uncommon vehemence, they also depend completely on each other. When The Sex Pistols break up, Sid has few prospects and an increasingly voracious appetite for heroin, and Nancy's attempts to 'manage' his career only hasten his downhill slide. Former Clash leader Joe Strummer wrote the film's theme song, 'Love Kills,' and The Pogues, The Circle Jerks, and Pray for Rain contributed to the soundtrack.
Actors:
Bruce J. Magrane,
Daniel Louis Rivas,
Biff Yeager,
Kathy Burke,
Sara Sugarman,
Favian Xavier,
Russell Brook,
Rome Jefferson Jr.,
Sri Johnston,
Desirée Erasmus,
John Snyder
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Bruce J. Magrane
Daniel Louis Rivas
17 January 1977, New York City, New York, USA
Biff Yeager
Kathy Burke
13 June 1964, Camden, London, England, UK
Sara Sugarman
13 October 1965, Rhyl, Denbighshire, Wales, UK
Favian Xavier
Russell Brook
Rome Jefferson Jr.
Sri Johnston
Desirée Erasmus
John Snyder
Director:
Alex Cox
Country:
United Kingdom
Keywords:
#Alex Cox #Chloe Webb #David Hayman #Debby Bishop #Gary Oldman #Sid & Nancy (1986) #Sid and Nancy
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September 15, 2016
Sid and Nancy has some claim on being the finest British film of the 1980s.
August 04, 2016
It's fascinating to hear the Sex Pistols' No Feelings again. This film makes me think it's their most powerful track.
August 09, 2016
They are more than zombies doing needlepoint on each other's veins. Both are brought to life in complex, deeply felt performances from two actors who have abandoned themselves to enormously demanding and difficult roles.
December 27, 2018
Sid & Nancy is a brutal tour de force.
August 09, 2016
Once we sense a glimmer of talent and accept these people as human beings, the tragedy of their drug use resonates enormously.
September 15, 2017
There is some nobility in the film's relentlessness and single-minded focus, but not enough to redeem its lack of having anything much to say beyond what we get on the surface.
August 01, 2016
Just a teensy bit tiresome: two addled junkies falling about and bellowing at each other for 112 long minutes.
January 01, 2017
Cox doesn't just plot an obvious decline: things do get grim, but he makes you care as you also despair for punk's cracked casualties.
August 09, 2016
This is a love story -- an unlikely, perverse, disturbing love story, but a genuine one.
November 30, 2016
Even if "Sid and Nancy" doesn't quite represent the imperfect perfection in which punk music so often traffics, Alex Cox's confident visual symbolism -combined with Chloe Webb & Gary Oldman's performances -grant it piercing volume and knotty shape.
February 20, 2019
Sid and Nancy is a fascinating record of a volatile period in music history.
August 09, 2016
Sid & Nancy is an honorable try, but it could have been better had Cox found a way to imbue the movie with some of the sheer zaniness of his Repo Man.
