Stars: Gary Oldman, Courtney Love, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Kathy Burke

Director: Alex Cox

Summary: The disturbing true story of Sid Vicious of the punk band 'The Sex Pistols', and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Together they form a self-destructive relationship which leads them both to an early and violent death.

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 gruelling to watch, but always compelling. This follow-up 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.

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Aspect Ratio:	16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	1986
Release Date:	February 23, 2009
Runtime:	109 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	O P T D 1479
Keywords:	Special, Music, Sex, English, Edition, Nancy, Punk, Pistols, Sid, Vicious, Drama, Biopic
Genre:	Drama