Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18429 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-02-23
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 109 minutes

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

Very moving, whether true to life or not
I loved this. I didn't know anything about Sid or Nancy before watching this and I don't know how faithful this film is to the actual events. I just know that it's a great story and that Gary Oldman, besides looking absolutely fantastic, is also acting wonderfully! Sometimes it's really funny, sometimes it's heartbreaking. It really impressed me, and I enjoy watching it again!

sid and nancy
well worth watching if you are intererested in british music
history. not the greatest film you will ever see, but as a slice
of social history, great.