Storyline
In January 1978, after their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates and their manager to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York only after a traumatic event. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction and co-dependency, a last journey with no return.
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Cast
Jeanne McCarthy, Gary Oldman, Miguel Sandoval, Kathy Burke, Xander Berkeley, Pete Lee-Wilson, Iggy Pop, Barbara Coles, Andy Bradford, Biff Yeager, Alexander Folk, John Snyder, David Hayman, Mark Monero, Graham Fletcher-Cook, John M. Jackson, Patti Tippo, Alex Cox, Daniel Louis Rivas, Sy Richardson, Anne Lambton, Chloe Webb, Courtney Love, Perry Benson, Sara Sugarman, Desirée Erasmus, Coati Mundi, Rusty Blitz, Michele Winstanley, Sandy Baron, Andrew Schofield, Milton Selzer, Tony London, Edward Tudor-Pole, Gloria LeRoy, Fox Harris, Tricia Bartholome, James Snell, Debby Bishop, John Spaceley, Stuart Fox, Victoria Harwood, Jude Alderson, Niven Boyd, Peter McCarthy, Bruce J. Magrane, Stefanie Auerbach, Jeffrey Kumer, Bradley Lieberman, Ron Moseley, Suchi Asano, Julie St. Claire, Keith Morris
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Reviews
100
Why should anyone care about a movie about two scabrous vulgarians? Because the subject of a really good movie is sometimes not that important. It's the acting, writing, and direction that count.
100
Tremendously acted by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb with exactly the right absence of sympathy, although Cox arguably loses his nerve on this score in the film’s dying moments.
100
What makes the film a classic is the skill with which the leads are so believable as heroin addicts, pivoting from intense love to hatred and dope sickness, all while maintaining the couple's signature snarl.
80
Empire
Alex Cox’s retelling of the Sex Pistols’ story from the point of view of Sid (Gary Oldman) and girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) works as both spirited punk biopic and tragically touching love story. It’s a hard film to watch at times, as Vicious plunges deeper into his heroin-induced slump, but told with skill and compassion, which make up for the onscreen squalor.
75
For a while, the tension powers the film. And when it doesn’t, the lead performances by Oldman and Webb pick up the slack.
