| Velvet Goldmine (1998) |
Playing: Curt Wild
Tagline: The Rise Of A Star... The Fall Of A Legend!
Release date: December 18th, 1998
Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: James Lyons, Todd Haynes
Co-Stars: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Christian Bale, Toni Collette, Eddie Izzard, Emily Woof, Michael Feast
Studio: Miramax
Rating: R
Runtime: 124 min
Country: UK / USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Rankcolor)
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Certification: Argentina:18 / Australia:MA / Chile:18 / Finland:K-12 / France:U / Germany:12 / New Zealand:R16 / Portugal:M/16 / South Korea:18 / Spain:13 / Sweden:11 / Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) / Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) / UK:18 / USA:R / UK:15 (video)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Official site: n/a
Synopsis:
1971: Glamrock explodes all over the world and challanges the seriousness within the flowerpower generation by means of glitter and brutal music. Brian Slade, a young rockstar, inspires numerous teenage boys and girls to paint their nails and explore their own sexuality. In the end Slade destroys himself. Unable to escape the role he created for himself, he plots his own murder. When his fans discovers that the murder is a fake, his star falls and he is forgotten about. 1984: Arthur, a journalist working for a New York newspaper, gets assigned the story about the fake murder of Brian Slade. When Arthur was young and grew up in Manchester, he was more than a fan of Slade. Reluctantly he accepts the assignment and starts to investigate what happened his old glamrock hero.
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