Amelia Warner, Ben Whishaw, David Morrissey

This is the tale of debauched 1960s rock icon, Brian Jones, the charismatic guitarist who co-founded the Rolling Stones but was fired in 1969. A few weeks later he was found dead at the bottom of his ...( read more  read more... )swimming pool.

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R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: Stephen Woolley

Release Date: October 18, 2005

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DVD Release Date: July 4, 2006

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  • August 22, 2007
    I didn't know too much about the death of Brian Jones before watching this film, just had an interest in the music by The Rolling Stones, so it was an interesting watch. It didn't really show Brian Jones in a good light, I'm not quite sure how accurate this was? The focus reall...( read more)y is on Brian Jones and Frank (a character played by Paddy Considine), so fans of The Rolling Stones wanting to see this for music, may be slightly disappointed.

    VERDICT: Interesting story, definitely worth a watch
  • December 31, 2006
    Pretty good movie.
  • October 22, 2009
    only caught a lil bit of this one. would like to see the whole thing someday.
  • July 4, 2009
    Great! When you watch, you feel like you're in the 60s! The surrounding and the atmosphere is perfect!
  • April 27, 2009
    Another biopic about a music legend. No. Not just another, simply the most stylishly music and a time (the 60's ) movie ever made. You think Walk The Line and Ray was good you've got to watch Stoned. I will say a lot more because im so impress i travel to the 60's and feel his mu...( read more)sic and his thoughts, and Leo Gregory gives the first super performance of the year. Ok lets end it like this is the best Rock n Roll about movie i have ever seen and the best movie so far this year.
  • April 21, 2009
    For those who possibly do not know, and mostly for fans of Brian Jones, a warning: the film was indeed the product of an intense research. A survey of ten years, I tell 'ya! They interviewed, inclusively, Janet Lawson, the nurse, apparently missing, who was present at the time of...( read more) the terrible tragedy. They also interviewed Anna Wohlin, the then swedish girlfriend of our beloved idol. Yes, it was the result of perhaps the largest survey yet made of the murder of Jones. And they still made an inconsistent film, with all this material! Very ignorant regarding to the seducing, almost mythical figure of the unspeakable multi-instrumentalist. Brian was a genius with an inestimable talent. Impulsive, impetuous and imprudent (characteristics of the great geniuses), has been decimated by the drugs. Actually, you can even say that Brian commited suicide. Gradually, of course. I personally hate when bad informed people, based on one or two sources, blame Jagger and Richards for the process of destruction of Brian. Believe me, nothing there is true. Jagger was an invaluable friend. Of immense concern. Keith, well, I don't need dwell on. Simply, the band, as an institution, couldn't dispose of the excesses of Brian. Or it would be degrading in itself -the band, I mean. In the film, this is not clear. I felt even a tone of accusation against Keith. The fundamental character in Brian's deterioration has a name: Anita Pallenberg. I won't dwell on that, but anyone who has read at least two biographies of the Stones, have a formed sense about Anita. She, an incatious person in her abuses. Led Brian and Keith to hell. You know what I'm talking about. Keith, smarter, bypassed her. Brian didn't have his chance. Got too much involved, and eventually exceeded himself. Here, Anita, in contrast, is shown as a victim, they don't give her the exact value. The actress that plays her, Monet Mazur, although incredibly resembling Anita, is insipid, despite her appeal. Don't take me wrong, please. I love Anita Pallenberg. It was one of the 60's It-Girl's, come on! But, unable to deal with those who didn't resist to her non-healthy influences. The most important topic to be discussed on this film: where the hell is the genius of Brian Jones here? The director, expert of the Swinging Sixties, I point out, focused in Brian's shadow. His defects, his stains, his sin. And wasted the fundamental; his unbelivable talent. The genius and intelligence of Brian Jones are not shown here. Not even how he founded the group. They pass through the childhood of Brian, but always with focus on the dark aspects. Brian was, above all, a charming mankind. Enthusiast, brilliant, creative and with a talent out of this world. Therefore, basically, I can not say, as a fan of the Stones and Brian Jones, that I approved the movie. It's a film that deals purely with the MURDER of Jones, but is far from narrating Brian's life as a whole.
  • April 12, 2009
    Esperaba un poco mas de esta cinta. Se queda corta en actuaciones y quizas lo unico que resalta es el montaje.
  • December 10, 2008
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • July 24, 2008
    The Film is a mess!
    One star though, because my girlfriend looked funny when watching all the nude scenes

Critic Reviews


May 4, 2006
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

Leo Gregory's performance as Jones fails to capture his rebel charisma, and the film, like its subject, winds up all wet, floating without direction, and lifeless. full review

April 14, 2006
Ty Burr, Boston Globe

Even The Doors looked like a model of clarity next to this. full review

March 31, 2006
Kurt Loder, MTV

When 'Stoned' veers away from the known facts of the Stones'
story ... it [slows]. For anyone less than obsessed with such Stones
arcana, it's hard to imagine how it could matter at all. full review

March 24, 2006
Kyle Smith, New York Post

With its low budget, unadventurous script and notable lack of any Stones recordings it has the look and feel of a TV movie. full review

March 23, 2006
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Most of the movie is a tired sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll cliché, and many of the performances are so bad as to be laughable. full review

March 23, 2006
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

It's fun, for a while, to hang out with the temperamental rock star. But in the end, we can't wait to get away from the man. full review

March 8, 2006
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

The herky-jerky editing is meant to indicate tumultuous excitement, switching back and forth in time, but the effect is grating and frustratingly unilluminating. full review

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  • jerrynation
    June 30, 2006
    Another biopic about a music legend. No. Not just another, simply the most stylishly music and a time (the 60's ) movie ever made. You think Walk The Line and Ray was good you've got to watch Stoned. I will say a lot more because im so impress i travel to the 60's and feel his music and his thoughts, and Leo Gregory gives the first super performance of the year. Ok lets end it like this is the best Rock n Roll about movie i have ever seen and the best movie so far this year.

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