24 Hour Party People (2002)

Comedian Steve Coogan plays TV journalist turned Factory Records head honcho Tony Wilson in the post-punk nostalgia trip 24 Hour Party People (2002). From The Sex Pistols to New Order and The Happy Mondays' Ecstasy-fueled raves, Wilson was the pied piper of punk rockers getting down. In the late 1970's, Wilson launched a club in Manchester that kickstarted all sorts of British rock stars' careers, then made his own record company to capitalize on the club's success. Joy Division was their breakout group, but when their lead man Ian Curtis (Sean Harris) kills himself, the remaining band members become a new band called New Order. Without Curtis at the helm, that band is more interested in drugs than music, which Wilson can't do much about. Meanwhile, rave culture and the rise of Ecstasy are killing Wilson's nightclub profits and his "no contracts" stance has his record company in dire financial straits. Suddenly, it looks like the party is over for Tony Wilson, unless he comes up with a new idea. But he'll never sell out, even if he's forced to sell! Known for doing the fourth wall breaking, "this might not really have happened that way" thing before every biopic became obsessed with it, it ends up Tony had a fine piece of ass to dance the night away with in his wife, played with sulky seduction by Shirley Henderson. But when we see her in a black bra getting railed after doing some lines in the bathroom, it's not Tony that's between her legs. Shirley, he didn't find a woman hotter than Miss Henderson? Well, it ends up the girls who love the guys who rock proved too great a temptation for his cock way before that men's room moment. Tracy Cunliffe doesn't suck as a topless fan who does suck Wilson in a van orgy, only to be interrupted mid slurp by Shirley. There's a 24 Hour Party in Mr. Skin's pants, and all of those ladies are invited!