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	‘Sid and Nancy’ (R)
		Based on the romance between Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen that eventually led to their deaths (both presumably by Vicious' hand), "Sid and Nancy" is a docudrama of sorts that succeeds less as drama than as documentary.
		Sid and Nancy, at the Key, is rated R and contains considerable profanity, graphic violence, nudity and sexual situations.
		Nancy uses sex the way department stores use loss leaders, and soon enough, she's a permanent part of Sid's life, bringing heroin along with her.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sidandnancyrattanasio_a0ad6d.htm (754 words)

	Sid and Nancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sid and Nancy is a movie directed by Alex Cox and released in 1986 (see 1986 in film).
		Originally titled Love Kills, Sid and Nancy emerged during a period of renewed fascination in the life of the Sex Pistols member Sid Vicious, and stars Gary Oldman as Sid and Chloe Webb as his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
		In his book Sid Vicious: Rock N' Roll Star, Malcolm Butt described Webb's performance as Nancy as "intense, powerful, and most important of all, believable." Courtney Love narrowly missed out on the role and was cast instead in a minor part as Nancy's friend Gretchen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sid_and_Nancy (446 words)

	Sid and Nancy (1986)
		Sid and Nancy is a great anthology of the rise and fall of a social movement, which behind the spiked hair, and leather jackets, was a dead on assessment of the hypocrisy that existed in England and the United States circa the decadent 1970's.
		Sid and Nancy is one of those rare films that has all the bursting exuberance of youth without all the negative side effects.
		Sid and Nancy's desperation does not only make us cringe, it also makes us laugh with a classic comic topper that has to be witnessed to gain full appreciation.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0091954 (928 words)

	Sid and Nancy
		Sid was arrested on the murder of Nancy and was released on bail.
		Sid and Nancy is a story based on the true life of punk bassist Sid Vicious and his drug ridden groupie Nancy Spungen.
		Once the film was done, Sid and Nancy moved into the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
	course1.winona.edu /pjohnson/h140/students/sid&nancy (2876 words)

	Cute Couples: Sid & Nancy
		Nancy was one flipped out Philly girl; she took her first tranquilizer at three months old, and her first appointment with a psychiatrist came when she was four years old.
		Nancy was already a four-star heroin user, the '70s equivalent of a crack addict, and she was more than willing to show him the ropes.
		Sid found out he had a problem - he was very liable to shoot his loud mouth off, and then get his face kicked in for it, since he was a 98-pound junkie with arms like flat inner tubes.
	www.phillyburbs.com /valentine/couples/nancy.shtml (661 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Sid & Nancy review
		Sid and Nancy was produced on a relatively low budget, and the film, especially in the beginning, is grainy.
		I wonder if Sid and Nancy have become icons mostly because of this film rather than just their short lives in the late 70s punk era.
		And it was nice to see a young Courtney Love in a small supporting role, and I can't help but wonder if Love could've played a better Nancy than Chloe Webb, who damn if she didn't sound like Marge Simpson choking on Drano).
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video_3/sidandnancy.html (605 words)

	Sid Vicious - Love Kills
		And when Sid, the Sex Pistols bass player, stabbed Nancy, his American groupie girlfriend, to death in a sleazy New York hotel in October 1978, it inevitably reinforced peoples ideas that punk was decadent and evil.
		Quite disgraceful, in my view, is a final shot showing Sid, on bail from a murder charge, driving off with a smiling, beautifully dressed Nancy in a cab; a scene supposedly of fantasy but shot so realistically as to make you think she has survived.
		Today, seven years after Sid’s death, the punk movement still has its lemming-like followers, replete with swastikas and frightening hairstyles.
	www.philjens.plus.com /sid/lovekills.html (1567 words)

	Sid & Nancy Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Sid and Nancy was originally titled Love Kills, but the screenwriters felt this was too cynical a statement (though it remained the movie's tagline).
		What actually happened in that Chelsea Motel room is still unknown, but what happens to the characters of Sid and Nancy in Cox's film allows that event to occur while remaining true to the spirit of their relationship.
		Nancy Spungen was in fact stabbed to death in the couple's Chelsea Hotel room and subsequently died on October 12, 1978.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=2295 (1138 words)

	notcoming.com Sid & Nancy
		Sid and Nancy are mythologized icons of contemporary romantic tragedy—they are Romeo and Juliet incarnated as punks.
		The outcome of Sid and Nancy is known before the film begins, and this fact pervades the entire film with an ever-present and urgent dread (the central conflict, largely, is the diving trajectory of the couple’s mutual depression).
		Sid and Nancy opens in the aftermath of the first of the pair’s deaths: Nancy has been found in a hotel bathroom with a fatal knife wound.
	www.notcoming.com /reviews.php?id=194 (1181 words)

	Sid and Nancy
		Nancy falls for Sid because he is the first guy who wants her around for something other than sex and drugs.
		In fact, the Pistols in Sid and Nancy seem very fashion conscious which they were not, (Sid in some rare concert footage is onstage wearing a dress and shower cap.) To the contrary, Rotten was known for his contempt of other bands', such as The Clash and The Jam, fashion statements.
		Sid is blind to all of Nancy's flaws and sees only a woman who he terribly loves.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/7601/sidnancy.htm (1044 words)

	'Sid & Nancy' (R)
		Sid says "Sex is ugly, boring, hippie s---," till he finds Nancy, who turns him on, and turns him on to heroin.
		Nancy comes back to life in Sid's fogged brain and he joins the figment in a taxi.
		Symbolism aside, "Sid & Nancy" is an indelible drama of undying love and meaningless decline.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sidnancyrkempley_a0cae1.htm (425 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Sid & Nancy
		As Sid and Nancy ride off into a post-industrial haze, the message is, “love conquers all.” In the film’s opening scene, there is an eerie psychic leap into the future, as Courtney Love (Gretchen) shrieks over a body on a stretcher—prefiguring the international news photos from March 1994.
		Sid & Nancy captures the almost childlike tenderness between two teens who, despite their violent, flaring nihilism, had the innocent idealism that gets bruised by life.
		The script takes the most plausible course, that Nancy’s death was accidental, but that the pair was in such an emotional and physical tailspin that the line between intention and accident is forever blurred.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=20&eid=33§ion=essay&page=3 (392 words)

	DVD Review - Sid And Nancy (The Criterion Collection)
		A scene where Sid and Nancy are lying in bed in a trashy hotel, telling each other how miserable they has a pretty funny conclusion.
		Starting while Sid is with the Sex Pistols, he meets groupie Nancy Spungen and the two start a relationship.
		It explains a bit about the punk scene and how Sid & Nancy came about, how it was received and why it appeared so soon after the punk scene.
	www.dvdcollectorshaven.ca /CriReview.asp?ID=29 (1727 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: Sid And Nancy [1986]
		Sid and Nancy depicts the morbidly fascinating story of the tragic love between the Sex Pistols bassist, Sid Vicious and his American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
		It is said that Sid's mum Anne poured the ashes of her son over Nancy's grave to allow them to be together.If you too want to feel part of them,watch this film and get a piece of the 70's.
		The scenes that see Nancy take her love home to her grandparent's house show this best, and are skilfully done, and are funny in an absurd, hellish sort of a way.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CJZI (912 words)

	Sid and Nancy
		Sid and Nancy is the story of Sex Pistols' bass player Sid Vicious and his girlfriend, groupie Nancy Spungen, and their descent into heroine addiction.
		After all, Sid and Nancy personally were two complete losers, strung out junkies with minimal IQ's and almost no talent.
		Brilliantly acted by Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb, it is nonetheless a thoroughly depressing film, and gives little insight into the personalities of Sid and Nancy.
	www.fakes.net /sidandnancy.htm (775 words)

	Sid and Nancy
		The sad, sordid story of Sid Vicious, a member of the seminal British punk group The Sex Pistols, and his doomed relationship with his American girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.
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	www.hollywood.com /movies/detail/movie/178854 (36 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Video Reviews
		"Kill me, Sid, just kill me!" Nancy Spungen (Webb) shrieks, and at that point, the entire viewing audience is probably ready to oblige.
		Her tragedy of self-destruction is one that has been played many times both on- and off-screen but seldom in such a harrowing and searing composition of addiction, despair, and emptiness.
		With their disdain for all things conventional, including life itself, Vicious and Spungen are a pathetic pair and one very potent reminder of a turbulent era that neither of them survived.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-12-08/screens_video.html (405 words)

	sid vicious and nancy's Blurty -- Entries
		Sid did more damage to society by killing nancy and then himself than he could of by growing old and continuing to wear the nazi shirts.
		Nancy will never be a "groupie" to me, and Sid will never be a "sell-out" to me.
		I'm very familiar with the story behind Sid and Nancy, and last night, I was able to finally see the movie, "Sid & Nancy." Despite some obvious false occurances in it {I forgave the creators because, well, it is Hollywood}, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
	www.blurty.com /users/sid_and_nancy (685 words)

	Motherfucking Masterpieces: Sid and Nancy
		After all, aside from some "high" points in the beginning, there's not a lot of fun to be had by the characters in “Sid and Nancy.” They meet, fuck, then fall into a downhill descent towards the mother of all heroin addictions, one that eventually claims both their lives.
		“Sid and Nancy,” the film, is pretty faithful to Sid and Nancy, the life, with a few justifiable excursions towards artistic license.
		Or Sid kicking it cold turkey, sweating and shaking on the concrete floor of the prison cell that holds him after he’s been arrested for killing Nancy.
	www.acidlogic.com /mm_sid_and_nancy.htm (1708 words)

	Sid & Nancy Comprehensive Movie Review
		From London streets up to american deserts, Sid and Nancy, in a suicidal ride, drink, smoke, take drugs and, occasionally, play music.
		When Nancy is found dead in the couple's hotel bathroom one morning, the audience is left to wonder whether or not Sid was her killer.
		Sid is arrested, taken away and charged with stabbing his lover to death.
	www.allwatchers.com /Topics/Info_6717.asp (858 words)

	Sid and Nancy (1986)
		Sid & Nancy is a gritty, dour snapshot of the doomed relationship between Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen.
		When the USA tour by the Pistols degenerates into farce - they were pretty well despised by the typical middle-American audiences - Sid leaves the band and calls for Nancy to join him in America.
		Sid's solo outings (his marvellously irreverent cover of My Way still brings back fond memories) are covered, as is his sordid life with Nancy as they make their home in the infamous Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4838 (1585 words)

	Magill's Survey of Cinema: SID AND NANCY@ HighBeam Research
		Abstract: Alex Cox's SID AND NANCY is a film that mixes brutal realism with the blackest of comedy to provide a deeply resonant account of the late 1970's punk movement as embodied in the violent and stormy romance of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) and his heroin-addicted groupie girlfriend, Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb).
		Cox depicts Sid and Nancy' s alienation of everyone around them as they descend into the insular world of drug addiction and, eventually, death.
		Summary: Alex Cox made a minor art-house splash in 1984 when his first film, REPO MAN,...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:42600914&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (185 words)

	DVD Review - Sid & Nancy (Criterion)
		There is also a generous helping of research materials showing Sid and Nancy (the real ones) in all their glory.
		Considering the title, the film really centers a lot on the twisted relationship between Sid and Nancy, but it also looks at their lives with all the sex, drugs and of course, rock-n-roll.
		Sid happens upon a professional groupie named Nancy, and begins a roller-coaster ride of drugs and emotion.
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews/sidandnancycriterion.html (1171 words)

	Baltimore City Paper: FILM Sid and Nancy
		Sid and Nancy's world is one where bashing your head against a brick wall is as chivalrous as covering a mud puddle with your coat.
		(Sid overdosed in 1979 while out on bail for the stabbing death of Nancy.) Gary Oldman may never top his film-debut performance as Sid; Oldman imagines the doomed punk more as a self-absorbed junkie and socially retarded little boy than a raging Antichrist.
		Chloe Webb (China Beach)—who aced out a young Courtney Love for the part (Courtney's seen fleetingly in a cameo)—plays shriek-prone Nancy as a woman who's found a life raft and clings to it till her fingers bleed.
	www.citypaper.com /film/review.asp?id=2810 (233 words)

	Sid Vicious - The Sex Pistols
		Sid was described by many as likeable and maybe even a little bit introverted.
		With McLaren's vision and the styling of Vivienne Westwood Sid became the pure face of punk, and he had the natural attitude to match.
		Real Audio 126 K. Sid Vicious is the most popular and visible icon of the punk movement, and for good reason.
	www.hotshotdigital.com /WellAlwaysRemember.2/SidVicious.html (164 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Sid & Nancy at Epinions.com
		Sid looks back at how he met Nancy when he and Sex Pistols singer Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) is destroying a Rolls Royce and waiting to meet up a friend and dominatrix named Linda (Anne Lambton).
		Nancy takes his money and tells him she’ll be back in an hour to get some smack but doesn’t show up.
		The film begins with the scene at the Chelsea Hotel in NYC where Sid Vicious is in shock over the dead body of Nancy.
	www.epinions.com /content_110509985412 (1652 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Sid & Nancy - Criterion Collection (1986)
		Nancy was accidently killed by Sid with a knife and Sid died shortly afterward of a drug over dose.
		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.
		My favourite film scene EVER is the scene in which Sid and Nancy kiss as rubbish falls around them in slow motion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305094926?v=glance (2164 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Sid and Nancy > Printer Friendly
		Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy (1986, originally released on DVD by Criterion, this review is of the new MGM release) is terrific as a bizarre love story between the late Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious and junkie/groupie Nancy Spungen.
		Webb hasn't had much success since her feature debut in Sid and Nancy and it's possible that Nancy's shrill behavior wasn't much of a stretch, but her Nancy is annoying and grating in a way that only reinforces her hold over Sid.
		Oldman is absolutely astounding as Sid, a tragic, pathetic figure in music history who has been turned into something of a martyr to punk by t-shirt and poster printers since his early death.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=1417 (675 words)

	Moviefone: Sid And Nancy Movie
		Sid and Nancy is an unforgettable movie.It might not be correct in a way.
		Sid and Nancy, Alex Cox, Gary Oldman, Chloe Webb, David Hayman, Debby Bishop, Andrew Schofield, Xander Berkeley, Perry Benson, Tony London, Sandy Baron,...
		For more information about "Sid and Nancy," visit the Internet Movie Database...
	movies.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=4438 (246 words)

	GreenCine product main - Sid & Nancy (1986)
		Sid and Nancy opens shortly after Sid (Gary Oldman) joined the band, when he meets an obnoxious American punk groupie named Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb).
		Nancy doesn't show up with the goods, but when Sid runs into her a few days later, she has a tall tale about getting ripped off - and Sid sympathizes with her.
		Nancy claims that she can get drugs, and Sid naively gives her his money.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=2179 (264 words)

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