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Quadrophenia 1979
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.
10 November 1959, England, UK
September 22, 1952 in Clapham, London, England, UK
11 July 1957, London, England, UK
13 February 1963, Highbury, London, England, UK
January 25, 1961 in Hampshire, England, UK
4 October 1943, London, England, UK
2 October 1951, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
8 February 1955
8 March 1938, London, England, UK
19 September 1946, Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
20 July 1914, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
26 April 1940, Islington, London, England, UK
2 March 1952, Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
June 13, 2001
Quadrophenia succeeds through its devil-may-care attitude and energy. It feels like a low-budget homemade movie from the period.
January 26, 2008
The film lives through the superb raw angst-ridden performance of Phil Daniels.
January 07, 2004
Disappointing film version of a great concept album.
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.
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]
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.
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.