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Sid and Nancy (also known as Sid and Nancy: Love Kills) is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox and co-written with Abbe Wool. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman), bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Despite failing to recoup its production budget at the box office, the film was received favourably by most critics and has attained cult classic status.
The film opens on 12 October 1978, with several police officers dragging Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) out of the Hotel Chelsea following the death of his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Vicious is soon driven to a police station and upon arrival is asked to describe what happened.
A little more than a year earlier, in 1977, Vicious and Johnny Rotten (Andrew Schofield) met Spungen, a groupie who had come to London to bed the Sex Pistols. Vicious dismissed her at first, but started dating her after she sold him heroin; it is implied that she introduced him to the drug. The two fell deeply in love, but their self-destructive, drug-fueled relationship frayed Vicious' relationship with the rest of the band, which eventually broke up on 17 January 1978, in the midst of a disastrous American tour.
Morbid biographical story of Sid Vicious, bassist with British punk group the Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. When the Sex Pistols break up after their fateful US tour, Vicious attempts a solo career while in the grip of heroin addiction. One morning, Nancy is found stabbed to death and Sid is arrested for her murder.
Keywords: 1970s, action-man-doll, airplane-stewardess, american-express, arrest, assault, baby, bar, barbie-doll, bashing-someone's-head-into-a-wall
Detective: [Sid has been arrested] Why so tense kid? Look, we just wanna know who the girl was. Where id you meet her? Son? [hands him a cigarette] Son.::Sid: [Takes a drag and sniffles] I met her at Linda's.::Detective: Linda? Who's Linda?
Nancy: It's a real waste to smoke that shit. Don't ya have any needles?
Nancy: What are ya doin here? You're in the studio, these places cost like fifty grand a minute. You could be really shining out! But what? You're just wonking off!::John: Wanking!::Nancy: What happened to you? Did you try and kiss your mother?::John: None of your business.::Brenda Winczor: John got beaten up by facists.
Clive: I'm gonna be a rude boy. Like my dad.
Nancy: Never trust a junkie.
[as Sid storms out]::Nancy: What about the farewell drugs?
[Nancy storms out of their flat in Sid's mother's clothes, then sees herself reflected in a window]::Nancy: AAGGHH! I look like fuckin' Stevie Nicks in hippie clothes!
Sid: How do you spell "holiday"?::John: S-H-I-T.
Nancy: I don't think that Johnny likes me.::Sid: He doesn't like anybody. He's a fool.::Nancy: You like me, don't you?
Nancy: If I asked you to kill me, would you?::Sid: I don't know. How would I do it? I couldn't live without ya.
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John and Yoko
Sid and Nancy
Kurt and Courtney
You and me
You and me
You and me
Aint gonna be
It's happened many times before in history
Boy meets girl,catastrophe
Person A's no good for person B
Started off with Romeo and Julie
It aint gonna happen to me
It aint gonna happen to me
John and Yoko
Sid and Nancy
Kurt and Courtney
You and me
John and Yoko
Sid and Nancy
Kurt and Courtney
You and me
You and me
You and me
Aint gonna be
You and me
You and me
You and me
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