24 Hour Party People

2002 Drama | Comedy | Musical
69%

Spanning from the 1970's to early 1990's, this is the story of the Manchester music scene... 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 an unknown band called 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 create the legendary Factory Records and the Hacienda Club, and bands like Joy Division, New Order, and the Happy Mondays emerge to change the industry forever.

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24 Hour Party People

Twenty-Four Party People is a look at the life and times of Tony Wilson (Coogan), the founder of Factory Records, and the Manchester music scene from the mid 1970s to the early 1990s.

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