Quadrophenia (film)
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Quadrophenia is a 1979 British drama film, based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name. It was directed by Franc Roddam in his feature directing début. Unlike the adaptation of Tommy, Quadrophenia is not a musical film, and the band does not appear live in the film.
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Directed by | Franc Roddam |
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Based on | Quadrophenia by the Who |
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Cinematography | Brian Tufano |
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Production companies | The Who Films Ltd Polytel Films Curbishley-Baird Enterprises |
Distributed by | Brent Walker Film Distributors |
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Running time | 120 minutes[1] |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £2 million[2] |
Box office | $1,050,000[3]is |
The film is set in London in 1964, a time when the lower- and working-class youth broadly aligned themselves with one of two factions who frequently engaged in gang brawls with each other. The Mods wore sharp suits, parker jackets, listened to British Ska, jazz and American soul music, took amphetamines, rode scooters and hung out at coffee bars. The Rockers rode powerful British motorcycles, such as ones from Triumph and BSA, wore black leather jackets, listened to 1950s American rock 'n' roll, drank alcohol and frequented British pubs.
The film stars Phil Daniels as Jimmy Cooper, a young mod who escapes from his dead-end job as a postroom boy by dancing, partying, taking amphetamines, riding his scooter and brawling with Rockers. After he and his friends participate in a huge brawl with the Rockers at the seaside town of Brighton, he is arrested and his life starts to spiral out of control; he loses his love interest (Leslie Ash), gets kicked out of his house by his parents and discovers that his idol, the popular, successful mod nicknamed Ace Face (Sting), is actually a bellboy at a hotel.