Sid & Nancy - Criterion Collection (1986) USA
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Director:Alex Cox
Studio:Criterion
Rating:4
Rated:R
Date Added:2007-03-06
Purchased On:2007-06-03
ASIN:6305094926
UPC:0715515009232
Price:$39.95
Genre:Romance
Release:1998-10-28
IMDb:0295609
Duration:111
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:1.75:1
Sound:Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Languages:English
Features:Letterboxed
1.75:1
Alex Cox  ...  (Director)
  ...  (Writer)
 
Sandy Baron  ...  
Perry Benson  ...  
Xander Berkeley  ...  
Debby Bishop  ...  
Rusty Blitz  ...  
David Hayman  ...  
Vincent J. Isaac  ...  
Tony London  ...  
Courtney Love  ...  
J. Steven Markus  ...  
Coati Mundi  ...  
Gary Oldman  ...  
Ed Pansullo  ...  
Sy Richardson  ...  
Andrew Schofield  ...  
John Spaceley  ...  
Edward Tudor-Pole  ...  
Chloe Webb  ...  
Biff Yeager  ...  
Woody Allen  ...  Himself
Mel Brooks  ...  Himself
Sid Caesar  ...  Himself
Nanette Fabray  ...  Herself
Larry Gelbart  ...  Himself
Howard Morris  ...  Himself
Carl Reiner  ...  Himself
Danny Simon  ...  Himself
Neil Simon  ...  Himself
Mel Tolkin  ...  Himself
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Summary: After the cultish success of Repo Man, maverick director Alex Cox made the film that remains his masterpiece--a loud, brash, abrasive, painful, funny, and utterly brilliant screen biography of British punk rocker Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen. As played to perfection by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Sid and Nancy are made for each other, serving their mutual strengths and weaknesses and rising with the punk-rock fame of Sid's group, the Sex Pistols, while falling into the ultimately lethal pit of drug abuse. Cox doesn't pull any punches or compromise the unsavory aspects of this passionate love story, so the film presents a harsh mix of emotional and physical anguish tempered by the very poignant and genuine love shared by its tormented central characters. Through it all, the film emerges as an intimate and yet oddly epic chronicle of punk's glory days of anarchic sex, drugs and rock & roll. It's as dynamic and confidently directed as any screen biography before or since, no less fascinating for its unpleasant aspects as for the touching emotions at its very human core. --Jeff Shannon