January 1978. After their success in England, the punk rock band Sex Pistols venture out on their tour of the southern United States. Temperamental bassist Sid Vicious is forced by his band mates to travel without his troubled girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, who will meet him in New York. When the band breaks up and Sid begins his solo career in a hostile city, the turbulent couple definitely falls into the depths of drug addiction.
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award4 wins & 2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The only thing that is sustained in Sid and Nancy is a tone of clinical disinterest that leaves you asking why Cox would want to make a movie about them.
– Paul Attanasio,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
[Cox] and his actors pull off the neat trick of creating a movie full of noise and fury, and telling a meticulous story right in the middle of it.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
13 Feb 2001
fresh:
It's not every film maker who credits special thanks to both Luis Bunuel and Dee Dee Ramone, but then Mr. Cox doesn't fit any recognizable mold.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
A few too many moralistic foreshadowings, but most of the time Cox's situations and characters develop on their own eloquently entropic terms.
– Pat Graham,
Chicago Reader,
28 Apr 2008
fresh:
Sid and Nancy is the definitive pic on the punk phenomenon.