'Serkis shines in a warts-and-all take on a figure who'd relish its anarchic stance. Some may find its approach wearing, however, and prior awareness of the music is pretty much a pre-requi...
Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
- Synopsis
A biopic lending life to the legend of Ian Dury: walking-stick wielding, word-bending frontman of top 70s punk outfit. Having suffered polio as a child, Ian Dury only ever had an outside chance at rising out of the mire of the pub circuit, but stardom awaits as he ditches his old band and forms The Blockheads. As their critical and commerical success builds, Dury faces fresh challenges in reconciling the iconoclasm of a rock and roll idol with the mundane demands of an alienated wife, a demanding mistress, and a son he scarcely knows.
- Release date:
- 08 January 2010
- Director
- Mat Whitecross
- Writer:
- Paul Viragh
- Cast:
- Andy Serkis, Ray Winstone, Olivia Williams
- Runtime:
- 115mins
- Certification:
- 15
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