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Release Date: 1986   Duration: 108 min

Cast: Ray Davies, Irene Handl, Anita Morris, Edward Tudor-Pole, Patsy Kensit, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Steven Berkoff, Sade Adu, Joe McKenna, Eve Ferret, James Fox, Tony Hippolyte ...MORE

Cast: Ray Davies, Irene Handl, Anita Morris, Edward Tudor-Pole, Patsy Kensit, Graham Fletcher-Cook, Steven Berkoff, Sade Adu, Joe McKenna, Eve Ferret, James Fox, Tony Hippolyte, Lionel Blair, Robbie Coltrane, Mandy Rice-Davies, David Bowie, Eddie O'Connell, Bruce Payne ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Coming of age, Period piece, Musical, Drama, Film adaptation, Fantasy, Romance Film, Musical Drama, Teen film

Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from the Colin MacInnes book of the same name about life in late 1950s London. The film was directed by Julien Temple, featured David Bowie and Sade, and a breakthrough role by Patsy Kensit. The film was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Upon its release on 18 April 1986, Absolute Beginners received...  MORE

Absolute Beginners is a 1986 British rock musical film adapted from the Colin MacInnes book of the same name about life in late 1950s London. The film was directed by Julien Temple, featured David Bowie and Sade, and a breakthrough role by Patsy Kensit. The film was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Upon its release on 18 April 1986, Absolute Beginners received immense coverage in the British media. At the time, the British film industry was perceived as being on the point of collapse. However, the movie was panned by critics and became a box office flop. Some of the criticisms included stylistic anachronisms, such as the mini-skirt and decidedly 1980s music from the likes of the Style Council and Sade, the bowdlerisation of Kensit's character, and the casting of Bowie, who made it a condition of his musical contribution. Absolute Beginners has subsequently gained status as a cult movie, in part due to its soundtrack. Some people compare the movie as the British equivalent of Streets of Fire, a 1984 American movie that was a retro-stylized rock movie with a notable soundtrack, also a commercial failure. LESS