Like many other youths, Jimmy is a teenager dissatisfied with family, work, and love. Only when he';s together with his friends, a ';Mod'; clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of ';The Who'; and ';The High Numbers';, he feels free and accepted. However, it';s a flight into an illusionary world.
8 February 1955
January 19, 1948 in USA
1955, Hull, East Yorkshire, England, UK
July 12, 1950 in London, England, UK
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
30 July 1953, Grays, Essex, England, UK
1 January 1961, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK
20 September 1944, Woking, Surrey, England, UK
14 September 1935, Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside, England, UK
4 October 1943, London, England, UK
12 July 1936, England, UK
May 4, 1898 in Paddington, London, England, UK
2 March 1952, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
5 November 1949, London, England, UK
27 February 1957, Battersea, London, England, UK
25 October 1958, London, England, UK
22 April 1923, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
July 16, 1937 in London, England, UK
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
February 26, 1922 in Stepney, London, England, UK
2 October 1958, London, England, UK
January 07, 2004
Disappointing film version of a great concept album.
September 04, 2012
An anti-musical...based on The Who's 1973 "rock opera" concept album...all the more brilliant for this seemingly counter-intuitive approach. [Blu-ray]
August 29, 2012
When you're an angry young man, there's no better way to prove you're an individual than to dress and act exactly like everybody else.
December 27, 2013
Roddam's look back at an angsty young man in '65 is a throwback to the kitchen-sink dramas that began plumbing the depths of lower-class lives then. Reeking with a restless teen spirit, Quadrophenia leads us down adolescence's blind alleys of rebellion.
January 26, 2008
The film lives through the superb raw angst-ridden performance of Phil Daniels.
June 13, 2001
Quadrophenia succeeds through its devil-may-care attitude and energy. It feels like a low-budget homemade movie from the period.
September 12, 2012
Director Franc Roddam shot the film with a gritty, realistic feel and the themes of youthful rebellion and confusion are absolutely timeless, magnified by the specificity of the setting rather than being limited by it.
September 13, 2007
"Quadrophenia" is a glorious representational story of male teen angst that transcends its British locations and great music with a sense of the confused romantic notions that young men the world over carry with them.
