24 Hour Party People

• 6.915 Comedy
• 2002-02-13
• 117 minutes mins

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

Starring:

Steve Coogan (Tony Wilson) Paddy Considine (Rob Gretton) Sean Harris (Ian Curtis) Lennie James (Alan Erasmus) Shirley Henderson (Lindsay Wilson) Andy Serkis (Martin Hannett) John Simm (Bernard Sumner) Ralf Little (Hooky) Danny Cunningham (Shaun Ryder) Peter Kay (Don Tonay)

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writer:

Frank Cottrell Boyce