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Sid & Nancy | 
 enlarge | Actors: Sandy Baron, Perry Benson, Xander Berkeley, Debby Bishop, Rusty Blitz
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  reviews
Sales Rank: 8407
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed)
Genre: 0
Rating: R (Restricted)
ESRB: Teen
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D1001281D
ISBN: 0792847970
UPC: 027616855602
EAN: 9780792847977
ASIN: B00004ZBVO
Theatrical Release Date: November 7, 1986
Release Date: December 19, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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After the cultish success of Repo Man, maverick director Alex Cox made the film that remains his masterpiece--a loud, brash, abrasive, painful, funny, and utterly brilliant screen biography of British punk rocker Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend Nancy Spungen. As played to perfection by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, Sid and Nancy are made for each other, serving their mutual strengths and weaknesses and rising with the punk-rock fame of Sid's group, the Sex Pistols, while falling into the ultimately lethal pit of drug abuse. Cox doesn't pull any punches or compromise the unsavory aspects of this passionate love story, so the film presents a harsh mix of emotional and physical anguish tempered by the very poignant and genuine love shared by its tormented central characters. Through it all, the film emerges as an intimate and yet oddly epic chronicle of punk's glory days of anarchic sex, drugs and rock & roll. It's as dynamic and confidently directed as any screen biography before or since, no less fascinating for its unpleasant aspects as for the touching emotions at its very human core. --Jeff Shannon
Description
Gary Oldman (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Lost In Space) and Chloe Webb (The Newton Boys) execute performances that are nothing short of phenomenal (Los AngelesTimes) as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and his unforgettable junkie girlfriendtwo socialmisfits who literally love each other to death. In this riveting biography of burnt-out icons (The Washington Post), award-winning* writer/director Alex Cox (Repo Man) creates a great film ('siskel & Ebert ) about the destructive lives of two 1970's punk legends. Their love affair is one of pure devotion. Sid falls hard for groupie Nancy Spungen, who seduces him with her affectionand addiction to heroin. Their inseparable bondto each other and their drugseventually corrodes the band, sending Sid and Nancy down a dark road of despair. Out of money, hope and options,the despondent two hit rock bottom while living in squalor at New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel. But their journey takes yet another tragic turn as they face their final curtainand attempt to fulfill their destiny of going out in a blaze of glory! *1986: Critics Award, Sao Paulo International Film Festival
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| Customer Reviews:
 Not for fans! September 18, 2008
Lucy Cadenas (Carolina, Puerto Rico)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're not a Sex Pistols or Sid Vicious fan you could really like this movie, but don't trust anything it shows, it's all lies. The movie was made without the concent of any of the Sex Pistols members, they consolted Joe Strummer from The Clash instead of going to Johnny Rotten. It's all BS! If the movie had been about other people, let's say Sam & Natalie, it would have been a lot more enjoyable, but as Sid & Nancy it's worthless. If you want to see a good Sex Pistols movie watch "The Filth and the Fury". Gary Oldman is a great actor and, even if some other people have said his performance was off, I think he did a very nice job, most of all in singing "My Way". Still he was nothing like Sid. Chloe Webb was fine as Nancy, almost the same annoying voice, but not really like her.
Don't watch it if you're a big Sex Pistols fan! It's enraging and depresing.
 THIS DVD IS NOT OUT OF PRINT!!! February 5, 2008
James A. Ramirez (Salt Lake City, Utah)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
DONT GET HUSTLED!!! This DVD is for some reason listed as out of print on AMazon. IT ISN'T!!! I just bought a copy from a seller fon here for around $38.00 only to see several copies of it at my local BestBuy two days later for only $15.00! The Sid and nancy Collectors Edition specifically! IT IS NOT OUT OF PRINT!!! Amazon is off!!!!
Overlooked Performances. December 22, 2007
jw shimkus (HI, Molokai)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I barely recognized Gary Oldman in this role. He shed double digit pounds for the role and I hear he paid a trip to the hospital for it. That's usually what Acadamy voters usually obsess about. But it's just the beginning point of my argument for Gary. What's more, I sense possession in Gary, a transformation rarely seen in todays, or in the history of film making. His torment is for our pleasure. I thought to myself that during episodes of this movie Gary must really be coked out, and I mean that for the first time of using that sentence ever as a good way. What the hell kind of performances were so good that not even a mention of Gary could me made? Let's see:Dexter Gordon in Round Midnight, William Hurt, Bob Hoskins and James Woods, with Paul Newman winning for the color of money. Let me say this, the only one of those I did see was the color of money (shame on me I guess) and sure, Paul was great but I get the nacking feeling he was honored that award for political reasons (don't bull***t yourself into thinking anything else.) And a note on the other four, "what the *bleep!"
The film is REMARKABLY good. It cuts into a raw, selfinflicting no holds barrier type film, a belly in stitches black humor that is sort of like laughing but feeling terrible after when you see a one armed man juggling or some sick crap like that. This has the formula of Doors, where pretty much it's, Hello, I'm coked, Hello, I'm rich, Hello I'm coked, Hello I'm poor, Hello I'm on speed, Goodbye I'm dead. This is my last opinion and it's shared with reluctance because of her many haters, and they have good reason to, but cloe webb was a great imbodiment of Nancy and she deserves credit, but Nancy's face belongs to Courtney Love who is scattered into a handful of scenes as Nancy's friend. Sometimes Webb was distratingly punk. I guess I mean she sort of sold herself to her director as if he were with licence to whip her between every scene with one of those S&M whips. *whip! (now I want you to be a coked w**re!) *crack! "ACTION!"
Punk Super Star Sid Viciousis Great ! October 12, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This film got everything you could want.
Gary Oldham is great as super punk star Sid, well Sid was much more handsome, aside from that he does a fantastic job with Sid's character.
Nancy is played by Chloe Webb a very pretty actress who does a great job of imitating Nancy's husky nasal voice but she's really too pretty to play Nancy.
There are lots of scenes that are really hilarious and it does a good job of taking the viewer back to the late 70's and height of punk rock revolution.
I recommend this to anyone who wants to see a good, sexy romance with a not so happy ending.
Great classic!
Punk Super Star Sid Viciousis Great ! October 12, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This film got everything you could want.
Gary Oldham is great as super punk star Sid, well Sid was much more handsome, aside from that he does a fantastic job with Sid's character.
Nancy is played by Chloe Webb a very pretty actress who does a great job of imitating Nancy's husky nasal voice but she's really too pretty to play Nancy.
There are lots of scenes that are really hilarious and it does a good job of taking the viewer back to the late 70's and height of punk rock revolution.
This dvd with the other great dvds 'The Filth & Fury' and 'The Great Rock n Roll Sex Swindle ' make a great addition to your Sid Vicious collection !
I recommend this to anyone who wants to see a good, sexy romance with a not so happy ending.
Great classic!
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