24 Hour Party People

24 Hour Party People2002

Stars: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell, Lennie James
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Rating: R
Runtime: 117 minutes

24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British comedy-drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The film was … more »



Ian Curtis:
[listening to their recording of "She's Lost Control"] I sound like Bowie.

Tony Wilson:
That's good. You like Bowie.

Ian Curtis:
[annoyed] I hate f***in' Bowie! In "All The Young Dudes" he sings about how you should die when you're twenty-five. Do you know how old he is? He's thirty, twenty-nine, something. He's a liar.

Tony Wilson:
Look, it doesn't matter. A lot of great artists produce their best work when they're... older. You know, W.B. Yeats...

Ian Curtis:
I've never heard of him, mate.

Tony Wilson:
Yeats is the greatest poet since Dante. If he'd have died when he was twenty-five...

Ian Curtis:
I would have heard of him, Tony!

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