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Release Date: 1986

Cast: Graham Fletcher-Cook, Eddie O'Connell, Edward Tudor-Pole, Irene Handl, Lionel Blair, Steven Berkoff, David Bowie, Robbie Coltrane, Patsy Kensit, Eve Ferret, Tony Hippolyte, Mandy Rice-Davies ...MORE

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

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

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 breakout role by Patsy Kensit. The film was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Upon its release on April 18, 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 (with the recent failure of the film Revolution). However, the movie was panned... 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 breakout role by Patsy Kensit. The film was screened out of competition at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival. Upon its release on April 18, 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 (with the recent failure of the film Revolution). 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 (Crepe Suzette had been depicted as a promiscuous negrophile in the book), 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 LESS