24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE

Steve Coogan, Lennie James, Shirley Henderson, Paddy Considine

MGM/ UA; Directed by Michael Winterbottom

Rated R; 113 minutes; 2002

This film tells the story of the origins of punk from the early days of the Sex Pistols through Joy Division, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, Iggy Pop and Siouxsie and the Banshees among many others. Actual footage is interspersed with impersonators in a frenetic style indicative of the music itself. Tony Wilson’s infamous label Factory Records, which was responsible for most of the important early punk bands, leads to the birth of The Hacienda, a punk mecca as famous as Studio 54 which it taken from its height of popularity to its ultimate and inevitable death.

PROMOTION IDEA:

Host a rave party the same week as your film showing and feature the music of the groups in the movie