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24 Hour Party People
UNITED KINGDOM · 2002

24 Hour Party People

Michael Winterbottom
music industry punk rock Manchester culture entrepreneurship counterculture
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Synopsis

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 cre

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