A comedy follows the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene.
17 January 1969, Breda, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
25 August 1973, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK
30 July 1960, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
1 June 1975, Harrow, London, England, UK
7 March 1948, Singapore
29 July 1962, Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
1965, Clapham, London, England, UK
16 December 1971, Eisenhüttenstadt, German Democratic Republic [now Federal Republic of Germany]
10 September 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
March 01, 2007
This has writing that could charitably be called inane, and a wholly repulsive star.
June 03, 2005
The formula doesn't entirely stick, but Dowse's visual veracity towers over any narrative shortcomings Tong presents.
May 27, 2005
This is biopic as raving rumination. But it is also a surprisingly compassionate redemption story.
June 10, 2005
There's nothing like watching a guy hit rock bottom and then try to crawl back up again. Or as that heartless record industry weasel puts it, 'People love a good tragedy.' Especially one set to a good beat.
May 27, 2005
The movie works because of its heedless comic intensity; Kaye and his writer-director, Michael Dowse, chronicle the rise and fall of Frankie Wilde as other directors have dealt with emperors and kings.
October 14, 2005
The film soars on the talent of Paul Kaye's magnificent portrayal of a pop music icon's self abuse, descent into total deafness and rebirth ...
September 22, 2005
O diretor Michael Dowse confere energia admirável a este filme espetacular que conta, ainda, com uma atuação arrebatadora de Paul Kaye.
March 09, 2006
One of the most graphic, scary, funny and imaginative depictions of drug addiction ever filmed.
October 03, 2006
full review in Greek
September 20, 2005
Bright, noisy, and surprisingly fulfilling, it keeps its adrenaline rush under deceptively easy control.
June 10, 2005
You may ... find the picture as undisciplined as Frankie's wild coif. I see the chaos, like the coif, to be tangled but pointed, an endearingly calculated mess.
May 26, 2005
A raucous, uproarious satire of the dance-club scene.
