Synopsis
A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becoming one of the founders of the punk-rock scene in Britain in the 1970s.
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Cast
- Andy SerkisIan Dury
- Tom HughesChaz Jankel
- Olivia WilliamsBetty Dury
- Naomie HarrisDenise
- Bill MilnerBaxter Dury
- Ray WinstoneBill Drury
- Arthur DarvillMick Gallagher
- Luke EvansClive Richards
- Mackenzie CrookRussell Hardy
- Noel ClarkeDesmond
Recommendations
- 80
The Hollywood Reporter
It's an energetic and vivacious film that will appeal to fans of punk rock worldwide and should find its place in the pantheon of great music-film biographies. - 80
New York Daily News
Musical biopics usually replicate a star's rise and fall in depressingly predictable fashion. Hurray, then, for Mat Whitecross and his vibrantly eclectic take on what should feel like the same old story. - 60
Empire
A sometimes whimsical and magical take on the life of one of Britain’s most artistically charged rock stars. Serkis shines in his role as the troubled singer. - 50
Variety
Paul Viragh's script is too bitty to hold it all together, and filigrees of technique fail to disguise the weaknesses in helmer Mat Whitecross' first solo flight. - 50
The New York Times
Its flashes of style are sometimes lively but more often seem, like the slavish period décor, to be desperate attempts to overcome the built-in inertia of the genre. - 50
Los Angeles Times
A new biopic of eccentric British rock legend Ian Dury, Andy Serkis uncoils a performance of spit, grit and wit so ferocious it only serves to starkly clarify how unremarkable and formulaic the rest of the movie is.
