Flamboyant entertainer Ian Dury, backed by the Blockheads, takes to the stage, explaining to his audience how, as a child, he contracted polio from a swimming pool and attended a special needs school where he was bullied, particularly by orderly Hargreaves, a fact which shaped his tough and frequently iconoclastic approach to life, culminating in his controversial contribution to the Year of the Disabled. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads, playing seedy pubs... (Full plot summary below)
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Flamboyant entertainer Ian Dury, backed by the Blockheads, takes to the stage, explaining to his audience how, as a child, he contracted polio from a swimming pool and attended a special needs school where he was bullied, particularly by orderly Hargreaves, a fact which shaped his tough and frequently iconoclastic approach to life, culminating in his controversial contribution to the Year of the Disabled. From his early days with Kilburn and the High Roads, playing seedy pubs with no dressing rooms Ian moves onto chart success with the Blockheads, collaborating with musician Chaz Jankel. His private life is complicated as, separated from the tolerant Betty with whom he remains friends but refuses to divorce for many years, he lives with the much younger Denise along with his adored son Baxter, who will himself become a performer. Ian dies in 2000, having packed an enormous amount of living into a comparatively short life.
Leave your thoughts about Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll.
| Film4Ali CatterallSex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a truly life-affirming and brilliantly unsentimental celebration of the Mockney and his music. Serkis was born to play this role. |
| Little White LiesMatt BochenskiEnlivened by some strong performances and a convincing emotional core, Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is a family melodrama in rock 'n' roll trousers. But man, it knows how to wear them. |
| Metro (UK)Anna SmithStill, [Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll] has a peppy, funny and ultimately inspiring biopic with enjoyable supporting turns including Ray Winstone. |
| The ListKaleem AftabLargely entertaining, but not without fault, much like Drury himself. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfI'm sure there was more to the astounding life of Ian Dury, but this picture doesn't submit the nuances, only the juiciest clichés imaginable. |
| News of the WorldRobbie CollinThis biopic of legendary London-born rock 'n' roller Ian Dury marks the rise of a serious talent. In fact, you'll be wowed by Serkis's performance as Dury - even if, like me, you don't know the first thing about the bloke he's playing. |
| Daily Express (UK)Allan HunterThe film's ace is a hard-working performance from Andy Serkis who plays Dury with wild-eyed gusto. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsThe movie is a mite overstretched - how much florid anarchy can an audience take at one sitting? - but it makes last month's rock biopic, the Lennonographic Nowhere Boy, seem the essay in decorous torpor it was. |
| The Sun (UK)Grant RollingsThere are three reasons to be cheerful. Serkis is fantastic as Dury. The script avoids his struggle with alcoholism and cancer. And there are some great lines. |
| Daily Mail (UK)Christopher TookeyWhat it does have is a barnstorming performance from Andy Serkis as the raucous, engagingly barmy Dury, and a quietly effective contribution from young Bill Milner as his understandably troubled son, Baxter. |
