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Sid and Nancy

  • 19861986
  • RR
  • 1h 52m
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7.0/10
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Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb in Sid and Nancy (1986)
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The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.The relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed.
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    • Alex Cox
    • Alex Cox(screenplay)
    • Abbe Wool(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gary Oldman
    • Chloe Webb
    • David Hayman
    • Alex Cox
    • Alex Cox(screenplay)
    • Abbe Wool(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Gary Oldman
    • Chloe Webb
    • David Hayman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 158User reviews
    • 86Critic reviews
    • 76Metascore
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award

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    Gary Oldman
    Gary Oldman
    • Sid Vicious
    Chloe Webb
    Chloe Webb
    • Nancy Spungen
    David Hayman
    David Hayman
    • Malcolm
    Debby Bishop
    • Phoebe
    Andrew Schofield
    Andrew Schofield
    • John
    Xander Berkeley
    Xander Berkeley
    • Bowery Snax
    Perry Benson
    • Paul
    Tony London
    • Steve
    Sandy Baron
    Sandy Baron
    • Hotelier - U.S.A.
    Sy Richardson
    Sy Richardson
    • Methadone Caseworker
    Edward Tudor-Pole
    Edward Tudor-Pole
    • Hotelier - U.K.
    Biff Yeager
    Biff Yeager
    • Detective
    Courtney Love
    Courtney Love
    • Gretchen
    Rusty Blitz
    • Reporter
    John Spacely
    • Chelsea Resident
    Coati Mundi
    Coati Mundi
    • Desk Clerk
    Ed Pansullo
    • Detective
    Vincent J. Isaac
    • Detective
      • Alex Cox
      • Alex Cox(screenplay)
      • Abbe Wool(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Gary Oldman wore Sid's real chain necklace in the movie. When doing his research, Sid's mom gave him the necklace to wear during filming.
    • Goofs
      In one of the early pub scenes, the opening band for the Pistols is supposedly X-Ray Spex, belting out one of their best-known hits: "Oh, Bondage, Up Yours!" However, the lead singer Poly Styrene is depicted as rail thin, with long straight hair and no braces on her teeth; most surprisingly, she is portrayed as being white. In real life, Poly (Marion Eliott) is of Anglo-Somali parentage; and in 1977 she was not model thin, plus she had short curly hair and braces. This is because the group was originally meant to be Siouxsie and the Banshees, but they wouldn't give permission for the use of their songs.
    • Quotes

      [getting off the phone with her parents]

      Nancy: I fucking hate them! I fucking hate them! Ass! Ow! Fucking motherfuckers! They wouldn't send us any money! They said we'd spend it on DRUGS!

      Sid: We would!

    • Crazy credits
      "And introducing the young Cat Vicious in the role of Smoky, Sid and Nancy's child."
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Jumpin' Jack Flash/Tough Guys/Children of a Lesser God/'Round Midnight (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Off the Boat
      Written by Dan Wool (as Dan Wül)

      Performed by Dan Wool

      © Zenith Music 1986

    User reviews158

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    5/10
    Tries Hard, but Ultimately Fails
    You really need to ask yourself if you love the Pistols and the general era of the late 70's. If you do, the film will fall flat for you.

    The details are all wrong, the key incidents of the band and Sid's involvement with them are way off. The personalities of key people are wrong, some characters just made up, rather sloppily too.

    So we can forgive it for being a wholly inaccurate of Sid Vicious' life. Fine, but so then what we are left with is a basic love story. It fails at this too, mostly because Nancy is written out pure spite and misogyny. She is therefore not only unlikable but wholly uninteresting.

    You never believe the love story, because quite frankly Nancy isn't really written as a human being, just a series of tropes about junkies and that awful idea that women are shrews that stifle men's creativity.

    The truth is Nancy was much more physically beautiful than this film wishes to admit. She was also quite charming, in fact, if you know junkie culture, you know that charm, deadly psychotic charm is a key way to survive and support your habit. None of that is shown here, so that ability for junkies to convince others they are clean, or kind or honest is obliterated.

    Nancy was smarter than this film gives credit for (yes even though she was a junkie), with more charisma too and if they had written her that way it would make for a better film.

    The real Sid fell in love with a real human being, a flawed one to be sure, but the kind of junkie a lot of us could fall for. In this film she's just a very nasty series of dull, obvious tropes.

    Just about everyone intimately involved with the Sex Pistols has disowned this film.

    I think there are moments of visual poetry in this film, I think Gary Oldman's performance is excellent, but the script is a Hollywood hackneyed attempt to reduce the Sex Pistols to every stereotype and narrow prejudice those who were never punks have always harbored about the punk movement.

    It's sad because there is some real craft to this film, it had tremendous potential, but ultimately you can just never believe Sid would fall for this less-than-human harpy. Sad because there's a real reason Nancy swept Sid off his feet.

    The truth, in this case, is not only stranger than fiction, it was also far more compelling.
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    • Release date
      • November 7, 1986 (United States)
      • United Kingdom
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Oakland Court, Holland Park, London, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Initial Pictures
      • U.K. Productions Entity
      • Zenith Entertainment
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    • 1 hour 52 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Stereo

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