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Sid and Nancy

  • 19861986
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  • 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
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    • 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
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    Biff Yeager
    Biff Yeager
    • Detective
    Courtney Love
    Courtney Love
    • Gretchen
    Rusty Blitz
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    John Spacely
    • Chelsea Resident
    Coati Mundi
    Coati Mundi
    • Desk Clerk
    Ed Pansullo
    • Detective
    Vincent J. Isaac
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      • 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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    7/10
    Convincing portrait of the wasted and the talentless.
    Recent social history is very hard to capture through drama and Alex Cox must be grateful to have such a good plot device (a far from standard love story) to carry us through this difficult and much misunderstood period of history.

    Punk rock was born to be a cult. Through all the headlines and publicity the central music barely scrapped the US charts: The Sex Pistols one studio album only just crept in to the American top 100 and they were viewed more as a novelty act than the next big thing. Only when the whole thing was tamed and popified did the thing take off, by then renamed "new wave" to differentiate between the new and old school.

    (By this time the Pistols had long since self-destructed.)

    In the beginning, the Sex Pistols were more a private party than a band, indeed they often played them instead of more normal gigs. The original punks were anti fashion and anti everything, attracting misfits of all kinds and colours; although art and fashion students made up the majority. This really was an open house with prostitutes, homosexuals and exhibtionists being equally welcome.

    (This is accurately depicted in the movie.)

    Sid and Nancy were from this hanging-on group and although joining the group as bassist and groupie respectively (Nancy tried to get it on with most of the band) they were never more than window dressing. The Pistol sound was Lydon/Rotten's voice and Steve Jones's power chords. Sid never even played on the records.

    It is notable that many icons manage to have an icon haircut (Elvis, Rolling Stones, Beatles all set hair fashions) and amazingly SV even managed one himself with his perfect spikes. His look, his life and his early death made him a cult, but he didn't leave a legacy behind other than a series of half-hearted drunken rants.

    Hard to see how Oldman could do more to be Vicious other than lose a few years. SV died at 21 and Oldman is clearly older (28 at the time of filming), but that is my only quibble. Chloe Webb (as Nancy) is also good, but annoying, like a dog that won't shut up barking and chewing the furniture, until you just accept it. A life consisting of drugs, sex and TV - often consumed all at the same time.

    Alex Cox's direction (possibly because he knew the punk movement first hand rather than through the papers) is first rate - like Quentin Tarantino lite - but he is just as much a flash-in-the-pan as Sid and Nancy himself. He can't make a mainstream movie, because all he is interested in is man's ugly underbelly and without major acting talent these things look self-indulgent and even amateurish.

    However this is a moral look at drug taking - not the "fun before it gets serious" moral - the "its never a good idea full stop" one. Sid is a child, Nancy is barely any more than a child, but more street-wise. Too lazy for work she used oral sex like most people use a credit card.

    I like this film because it has something to say about undeserved fame, what you do (or the few choices you have) after your fifteen minutes is up and how empty headed people with no agenda get treated in this big bad world. Whether you want to spend time learning all this is up to you, but it is very well done if you do.
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    • May 18, 2003

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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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