Spike Island

Released May 8, 2015

1 hr. 36 min.

Drama

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43%

28 Reviews

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43%

500+ Ratings

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Teenage musicians (Elliott Tittensor, Nico Mirallegro) travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

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Spike Island has energy and visual style to spare; unfortunately, they're lost within the movie's clichéd story and choppy direction.

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This is a somewhat nostalgic film about early 90s britpop - more specifically, the 1990 concert by the Stone Roses at Spike Island in Manchester. Its also got a bleak side/aspect to it, with strained parental relationships etc. Regardless, there's definitely a small amount of hope present, which I liked and I liked the energy felt during the snippets of live performances shown at the start of the film. Its quite an urban film, of course, with some drug taking scenes. Some of the characters, while not entirely polite or charming (their lairy lads, of course) they don't seem ultimately bad people. I thought the characterisation was quite good and the cast do a decent job in their portrayals. I thought this was a pretty engrossing watch, certainly surprisingly emotional at times. I enjoyed it and would recommend it.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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I just found the main characters really annoying.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Audience Member

The main characters are slightly interesting but the plot has no surprises, boring.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

Really enjoyed this film made me smile and cry what more do you want from a film! well put together and great acting

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

Tremendous reminder of a time and a place when life was based around music.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/26/23

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Audience Member

Stylish and atmospheric movie that really captures a moment in time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Mat Whitecross

Director

Elliott Tittensor

Tits

Nico Mirallegro

Dodge

Emilia Clarke

Sally

Lesley Manville

Margaret

Jordan Murphy

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Larushka Ivan-Zadeh

metro.co.uk

If you want to mosh about in Stone Roses nostalgia, check out Shane Meadows doc Made Of Stone instead.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 5, 2017

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Sheri Linden

Los Angeles Times

Though the story is drawn in broad strokes and overloaded with melodrama, director Mat Whitecross' exuberant feature understands the communal joy and personal necessity of rock 'n' roll.

May 7, 2015

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

Spike Island has plenty of feckless, disorganised charm.

Rated: 3/5

May 4, 2015

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Adam Lowes

CineVue

All the usual coming of age tropes are present and correct, but it's nothing we haven't seen numerous times before.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 26, 2019

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Joseph Walsh

CineVue

It all feels too simplistic.

Rated: 2/5

Aug 23, 2018

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Daniel Barnes

Sacramento News & Review

Taking its cue from the sort of pandering nostalgia that usually gets peddled to Baby Boomers, Mat Whitecross' irritating Spike Island follows a teenage gang of the Stone Roses' superfans in 1990 Manchester.

Rated: 2/5

May 30, 2015

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Synopsis

Teenage musicians (Elliott Tittensor, Nico Mirallegro) travel to England's Spike Island in the hope of attending an outdoor performance by their favorite band, the Stone Roses.

Director: Mat Whitecross
Executive Producer: Phil Hunt, Adam Kulick, Joe Oppenheimer, Compton Ross
Screenwriter: Chris Coghill
Distributor: Level 33 Entertainment
Production Co: Metrol Technology, Bankside Films, Head Gear Films, Fiesta Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English (United Kingdom)
Release Date (Theaters): May 8, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 18, 2016

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