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Sid & Nancy

Gary Oldman
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Overview

Alex Cox's riveting biopic tells the bleak, heroin-drenched story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his disturbed American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. Gary Oldman delivers a bravura performance as Sid, matched by Chloe Webb's grating, clearly unhinged Nancy. The two lovers' childlike tenderness with each other contrasts sharply with their bleak, violent nihilism, and while the script implies that Nancy's death was accidental, the line between intention and accident is deliberately blurred. By turns romantic and horrific, SID & NANCY is often grueling to watch, but always compelling. This followup to Cox's cult hit REPO MAN was another critical success, showing that the director was as comfortable with reality-based material as with the satirical fantasy of his first feature. His romantic vision draws us in while throwing us back in time to London and New York at the inception of the drug-laden British punk era. The film's dreamlike style and a hypnotic score dramatize the schism between Sid and Nancy's world and the world around them--and the inevitable horror when those worlds collide.

Awards:

Main Cast & Crew:
Alex Cox - Director
Gary Oldman
Chloe Webb

Details

    DVD Format
  • Format: DVD
  • Color Format: Color
  • UPC: 715515201612
  • Genre: DRAMA
  • Rating: R (MPAA)
  • Release Date: August 2017

Movie Reviews

Synopsis:
Director Alex Cox's acclaimed second feature tells the bleak, heroin-filled story of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his catastrophic love affair with the self-destructive Nancy Spungen. Masterfully portrayed by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, the two lovers exhibit a childlike tenderness with each other that contrasts sharply with their bleak, violent nihilism. The result is an oddly romantic view of the early days of the punk era and a visually stunning tale of punk rock, drugs, devotion, and inevitable early death.

Notes:
Theatrical Release: November 7, 1986. Sid Vicious died from an overdose of heroin February 2, 1979.

Reviews:
"...A true romance..." - Recommended - 05/01/1995 Premiere, p.136


"...A sordid, intentionally ugly and sometimes unexpectedly beautiful film....Played vividly by [Oldman and Webb]..." - 10/03/1986 New York Times, p.C5


"...Ghastly but funny..." - 01/01/1987 Film Comment, p.6-9


"...This is Cox at his most accessible and consistent..." - 03/01/2001 Total Film, p.116


"...They're a fabulous disaster, one of the screen's sickest romances..." - 11/27/2003 Rolling Stone, p.82


"[T]he film is an unsparing -- and also touching -- account of their destructive relationship." - 08/01/2005 Sight and Sound, p.33


4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he performances, especially Oldman's bravura turn stave off the misery, and Cox's direction is anarchic with a splash of art..." - 03/01/2009 Empire


"Webb captures the vulnerability -- and possible madness -- beneath Spungen’s shrill exterior, while Oldman, in his breakout performance, brings to the surface the insecurity of his character..." -- Grade: B - 02/01/2012 A.V. Club


5 stars out of 5 -- "Here is Alex Cox’s Beckettian masterpiece about those two prisoners of futility, Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen....His film is tremendously acted by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb with exactly the right absence of sympathy..." - 08/04/2016 The Guardian

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