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.

Steve Coogan
as Tony Wilson

Lennie James
as Alan

Paddy Considine
as Rob

Shirley Henderson
as Lindsay

Andy Serkis
as Martin

John Simm
as Bernard

Ralf Little
as Hooky

Danny Cunningham
as Shaun

Sean Harris
as Ian

Kate Magowan
as Yvette
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 ...