24 Hour Party People

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.

Cast

Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan

as Tony Wilson

Lennie James

Lennie James

as Alan

Paddy Considine

Paddy Considine

as Rob

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

as Lindsay

Andy Serkis

Andy Serkis

as Martin

John Simm

John Simm

as Bernard

Ralf Little

Ralf Little

as Hooky

Danny Cunningham

Danny Cunningham

as Shaun

Sean Harris

Sean Harris

as Ian

Kate Magowan

Kate Magowan

as Yvette

Reviews

CinemaSerf

I actually met Tony Wilson a few times and found him to be an immensely charismatic and somewhat contradictorily erudite vulgarian who wasn't short of vision either. Sadly the effort here from Steve Coogan, that I felt bordered on mimicry, reminded me more of Jimmy Savile that it did TW and so from ...

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