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24 Hour Party People
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24 Hour Party People (2002)7.3 /10

R (US) · UK, USA · English · 117 min · Sep 20, 2002 · More  
Directed by:  Michael Winterbottom
Written by:  Frank Cottrell Boyce

Storyline:  In Manchester, 1976, Cambridge graduate and TV presenter Tony Wilson attends a Sex Pistols gig that sparks the creation of Factory Records with his friends. The label signs Joy Division, later New Order, James, and Happy Mondays, shaping the “Madchester” sound. Their story of music, sex, drugs, and ambition culminates in the rise of The Hacienda, a nightclub as iconic as Studio 54 and a landmark in global music culture.

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