For the song by Happy Mondays, see Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out).
24 Hour Party People
UK theatrical poster
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
Written by
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Produced by
Andrew Eaton
Starring
Steve Coogan
Paddy Considine
Danny Cunningham
Sean Harris
Shirley Henderson
Lennie James
Andy Serkis
John Simm
Cinematography
Robby Müller
Edited by
Trevor Waite
Production companies
Baby Cow Films Revolution Films FilmFour Film Council United Artists[1] The Film Consortium
Distributed by
Pathé Distribution
Release date
5 April 2002 (2002-04-05)
Running time
117 minutes[2]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Box office
$2.8 million[2]
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British biographical comedy drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival[3] to positive reviews.
It begins with the punk rock era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the rave and DJ culture and the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records. The narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the careers of the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column and Happy Mondays.[4]
The film is a dramatisation based on a combination of real events, rumours, urban legends and the imaginings of the scriptwriter, as the film makes clear.[4] In one scene, one-time Buzzcocks member Howard Devoto (played by Martin Hancock) is shown having sex with Wilson's first wife in the toilets of a club; the real Devoto, an extra in the scene, turns to the camera and says, "I definitely don't remember this happening". The fourth wall is frequently broken, with Wilson (who also acts as the narrator) frequently commenting on events directly to camera as they occur, at one point declaring that he is "being postmodern, before it's fashionable". The actors are often intercut with real contemporary concert footage, including the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall.
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^"Festival de Cannes: 24 Hour Party People". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
^ abSmith, Evan (1 December 2013). "History and the Notion of Authenticity in Control and 24 Hour Party People". Contemporary British History. 27 (4): 466–489. doi:10.1080/13619462.2013.840537. ISSN 1361-9462. S2CID 159889143.
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