Who Killed Nancy?

2009

Action / Documentary / Music / Mystery

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 37% · 21 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 37% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 652 652

new york city drug abuse based on novel or book 1970s punk rock docudrama

Plot summary

On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under the bathroom sink in a hotel room. She was Nancy Spungen, an ex-prostitute, sometimes stripper, heroin addict, and girlfriend of Sex Pistols' bassist Sid Vicious.

Director

Alan G. Parker Photo
Alan G. Parker

Top cast

Don Letts Photo
Don Letts as Self - Director, DJ
George Ancock Photo
George Ancock as Victor Colicchio
Will Cummock Photo
Will Cummock as Detective
Ned Van Zandt Photo
Ned Van Zandt as Self - Contributor
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845.56 MB
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English 2.0
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1 hr 32 min
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1.53 GB
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English 2.0
NR
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25 fps
1 hr 32 min
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Movie Reviews

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Reviewed by moonspinner55 4 / 10

It could use a bit more polish...and a lot more of Nancy

Director Alan G. Parker, a self-titled Sid Vicious biographer, put together this overlong, scattered pseudo-documentary about '70s British punker and ex-Sex Pistols bassist Vicious and his American girlfriend, groupie Nancy Spungen, who was found dead in 1978 in the New York City hotel room the couple shared, stabbed once with a knife after a long binge of partying and drugs. Although it's her name in the movie's title, Parker hasn't much information on Nancy Spungen--no surprise then that the primary focus here is on Vicious (which probably also aided Parker in getting financing). We do get a shot of Spungen's nice childhood house in Pennsylvania (which Parker then compares to Sid's humble beginnings) and rare interview footage of Sid and Nancy together before the stabbing and Sid's eventual heroin overdose. The rest doesn't amount to much: Sid's arrest, his release on bail of $50,000, evidence at the murder scene unexplored by the police (which Parker obviously feels vindicates Sid), and dead-end interviews with friends and hangers-on who feed on the long-held conspiracy theory that Nancy was murdered by an outsider over a drug-deal gone bad. Newspaper headlines and vintage TV news clips do not a documentary make, yet somehow Parker has managed to stretch this thing out to an interminable 100 minutes (an abbreviated version runs 89 minutes). *1/2 from ****
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