24 Hour Party People

Andy Serkis, Chris Coghill, Danny Cunningham

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...( read more  read more... ) 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.

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R, 1 hr. 57 min.

Directed by: Michael Winterbottom

Released: August 9, 2002

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DVD Released: January 21, 2003

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  • August 28, 2008
    I've been cogitating on this little gem for a while, not quite sure how best to say what I want to say about it. If you surf reviews and comments about it, you'll notice that the word "comedy" crops up quite a bit. Granted, there are many very funny moments in the film, but ove... ...( read more )
  • July 11, 2008
    It's funny...even if you are like me and your teen / early adult life was immersed in much of the music of this period and over the years you've heard about 'Factory Records" and 'The Hacienda'...you can't really appreciate ANY of it until you see a film like this and get a true ... ...( read more )
  • March 27, 2008
    Tony Wilson: "June 4th, 1976. The Sex Pistols play Manchester for the very first time. There are only 42 people in the audience... but every single one is feeding on a power, an energy and a magic. lnspired, they will go out and perform wondrous deeds. For instance, Howard Dev... ...( read more )
  • February 15, 2008
    24 Hour Party People is a really fun look at the booming Manchester music scene of the late 70s and 80s. Our guide and narrator is television presenter and record-company owner Tony Wilson (played by the awesome Steve Coogan), who in many ways greased the wheels for the music sce... ...( read more )
  • December 3, 2007
    Tony Wilson: The smaller the attendance the bigger the history. There were 12 people at the last supper. Half a dozen at Kitty Hawk. Archimedes was on his own in the bath.

    This is a movie about the punk music scene in Manchester from the 1970s to the 1990s. It involves Tony Wils... ...( read more )
  • April 23, 2009
    impossível não assistir esse filme sem querer sair do sofá dançando "twenty-four hour party people"...

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August 22, 2002
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Great good fun even if you spent the 1980s listening to Loverboy. full review

August 16, 2002
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Shines with a kind of inspired madness. full review

August 15, 2002
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

The actors' performances are a mix of eerie mimicry and something more: a portrait of ambitious dreamers kicking around big notions and doing absolutely self-destructive, stupid things. full review

July 10, 2002
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Like the music, the film is outspoken, roaringly funny, defiantly sexual and relentlessly in your face. I couldn't have liked it more. full review

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  • shortpantsromance
    November 2, 2007
    A brilliant true story :)

    RIP Tony Wilson - a legend!

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