24 Hour Party People (2002) - HQ Trailer

An ingenious docudrama on the Manchester music scene of the 1980s and '90s. 24 Hour Party People traces the rise and fall of bands like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays--bands whose success in the U.S. was limited, but whose impact in Europe (and England in particular) was phenomenal. It all centers around the record label that spawned these bands, Factory Records, and its impresario Tony Wilson (Steve Coogan), a man both ludicrous in his self-absorption and brilliant in his willingness to go out on a limb for bands he likes. Coogan, a British comic, gives a remarkable and deeply funny performance that manages to be simultaneously sincere and ironic. The movie communicates what was great about this time without any false majesty--the squalor and disasters are as crucial to this portrait as the wild successes. The soundtrack, of course, is superb.

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[juliecarson100]

Manchester...where strangers talk to each other in the street. where friends call each other 'love' and 'darling'....and mean it!

20 nobel prize winners are from...Manchester. The atom was first split in..Manchester. The first test tube baby was conceived in...Manchester. The largest university in europe is in...Manchester. etc etc etc....we are the dogs bollocks!

[mattgriffo1]

what kinda music will you be playing? New Wave, Indie. INDIAN!?

[20cFilmWannabe]

Manchester is no different from any other northern town It's cos Greater Manchester is huge that there is so many bands from 'Manchester'

[zxcvnmtgb]

This movie is epic! Everyone should see it!

[Byron Farrow]

Great film - bloody awful trailer.

[Lyrisa De Gray]

"I just saw god!"

"What did he look like?"

"He looked like me!"

HAHAHAHA

[Mhashallal]

Come in Marseille DUDE !

[Rory Mahony]

And the man who split the Atom was born in... Dungarvan

[whale0melette]

I miss Manchester...

[asbosaxon]

Aye, it's a great place. It can be a rough city, but a cool city. Very unique from the rest of the UK.

[Miguel Ángel Zapana Bracamonte]

Excelente película

[wolfhaley666KTA]

looks fucking awful.