SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL

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• Release Year: 2010
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Plot: Flamboyant entertainer Ian Dury, backed by the Blockheads, takes to the stage, explaining to his audience how, as a child, he contracted polio from a swimming pool and attended a special needs school where he was bullied, particularly by orderly Hargreaves, a fact which shaped his tough and frequently iconoclastic approach to life, culminating in his controversial contribution to the Year of the Disabled. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads, playing seedy pubs with no dressing rooms Ian moves onto chart success with the Blockheads, collaborating with musician Chaz Jankel. His private life is complicated as, separated from the tolerant Betty with whom he remains friends but refuses to divorce for many years, he lives with the much younger Denise along with his adored son Baxter, who will himself become a performer. Ian dies in 2000, having packed an enormous amount of living into a comparatively short life.
• Cast: Andy Serkis, Tom Hughes, Clifford Samuel, Joseph Kennedy, Arthur Darvill, James Jagger, Shakraj Soornack, Mackenzie Crook, Olivia Williams, Sam Spruell, Julian Cox, Wesley Nelson, Ross Boatman, Msimisi Dlamini, Bill Milner, Sabrina Jones, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Sonny Ashbourne Serkis, Naomie Harris, Charlotte Beaumont, Ray Winstone, Toby Jones, Ralph Ineson, Marc Lambert-Clark, Georgina Edewor-Thorley, Cassie Edewor-Thorley, Ian Neil, Joe Siffleet, Andrew Knott, Giuseppe Circelli, Luke Evans, Noel Clarke, Alan Mckenna, Ferdy Roberts, Poppy Miller, Hamish Thompson, Cortez Nelson, Michael Maloney, Mark Arends, Catherine Balavage, Jennifer Carswell, Ellie Jeffreys, Stéphanie Montreux, Elisabeth Roberts, Nick Rowson, Karol Steele, Chris Wilson, Mat Whitecross, Paul Viragh
• Director: Mat Whitecross
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: Tribeca Film in Association with American Express
• Media Format: Movie