Sid and Nancy (1986)

• Year: 1986
• Released: 07 Nov 1986
• Country: United Kingdom
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 2 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091954/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sid_and_nancy
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/sid-and-nancy
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
• Runtime: 112 min
• Writer: Alex Cox, Abbe Wool
• Director: Alex Cox
• Cast: Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman
• Keywords: based on true story, based on a true story, cult film, 1970s, drug addiction,

	7.0/10
	76/100
	88% – Critics
	76% – Audience

Sid and Nancy Storyline

Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.

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Not Romeo and Juliet

I missed SID & NANCY when it was first released. I wasn’t expecting much when settling down to watch the DVD. I was pleasantly surprised to find a coherent, energetic but ultimately melancholy study of co-dependency, with two terrific central performances.

We get to know Chloe Webb’s child-woman Nancy to a greater extent than we do Gary Oldman’s wild-man Sid. Not the actors’ fault. In fact it’s not a fault at all. There is something inexplicable there. Whatever forces were at play in forming the young man who became Sid Vicious, it’s to the credit of Alex Cox and his team that they don’t waste time speculating upon them or trying to analyse them. Instead, the film lives up to its title, starting just before the relationship starts and ending just after Nancy’s death.

The era in which the film was made is a significant factor in appreciating it. It was, in the UK at any rate, a time when the welfare state that had been so painstakingly put into place began to be systematically unravelled, a land where the notion of Society was belittled, in which hyper-individualism was lauded, where any sense of community was being abandoned, and the search for it becoming a joke. WALL ST, the’hero’ of which was to famously declare Greed to be good, was released the year after SID AND NANCY. I remember all that only too well. And of course it’s not over yet: the unravelling continues.

Sid and Nancy meet in a frenzy and finish in a fog. In between they shore each other up as best they can, two bits of flotsam on an indifferent sea. We’re shown only a little of where Sid came from, mercifully not enough to help us theorise about how he came to be the embodiment of anarchy. Instead, through Oldman’s bravura, we see his unmitigated charisma, at which the film’s unctuous Malcolm McClaren (played by David Hayman) smiles knowingly and which he merrily exploits. We do see Nancy in the context of her family, but again, instead of attempting to use this encounter to explaining her, Cox gives us a sense of how pleased the family was to get rid of her. If Romeo and Juliet had been like Sid and Nancy, the Montagues and the Capulets would have paid to get them married and out of Verona altogether.

Punk love has rarely been more uncompromising

Watching ‘Sid and Nancy’ as somebody who has seen her fair share of great biopics and being a huge admirer of Gary Oldman, to me it didn’t disappoint at all. High expectations were very much met and exceeded.

There is not much that is wrong with ‘Sid and Nancy’. It does lag in pace a little in the middle, and it is around this point of the point where there is a bit of repetitiveness. Outside of those not too major flaws, ‘Sid and Nancy’ has so many strengths and is very much a very good film. It is unflinching, uncompromising and at times depressing, but it’s a riveting watch.

Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb are absolutely outstanding in the lead roles, especially Oldman who gives one of his best performances from personal opinion here. Courtney Love is also in this film before she rose to fame and, despite auditioning for Nancy, makes a strong impression as Gretchen. The characters are pretty vile at times but there is enough to make one feel sympathy for them.

‘Sid and Nancy’ is atmospherically filmed and there is a real sense of authenticity to the costumes and setting. Likewise with the booming and pretty unforgettable soundtrack.

Also successful is Alan Cox’s direction, he directs with a very keen eye for the era and the absurdities that came with it. The script is unflinching and thought-provoking.

Lastly the story brilliantly mixes gritty realism, charming and moving romantic elements and delicious black humour.

Overall, hugely impressive and recommended highly, though not everybody is going to like it. 8/10 Bethany Cox

two amazing performances

This starts with the death of Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb) leaving Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) catatonic as the police question him. The couple had met more than a year ago. Sid and Sex Pistols bandmate Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) are on the streets doing minor vandalism. They find Nancy with another friend. She becomes a groupie. After a little time, they become a couple addicted to heroine. The band implodes during the disastrous US tour. Sid tries to go solo with Nancy managing but their desperate addiction leads to the eventual self-destruction.

These are two amazing performances. Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb go into the gutter of the soul of these characters. It’s raw and powerful. This is a Romeo and Juliet on heroine. I actually find Webb the wilder performance but the combination is undeniable.