Sid and Nancy

Sid and Nancy also known as Sid and Nancy Love Kills is a 1986 British biopic directed by Alex Cox and cowritten with Abbe Wool. The film portrays the life of Sid Vicious Gary Oldman, bassist of the seminal punk rock band the Sex Pistols, and his relationship with girlfriend Nancy Spungen Chloe Webb. Despite failing to recoup its production budget at the box office, the film was received favourably by most critics and has attained cult classic status.

A little more than a year earlier, in 1977, Vicious and Johnny Rotten Andrew Schofield met Spungen, a groupie who had come to London to bed the Sex Pistols. Vicious dismissed her at first, but started dating her after she sold him heroin it is implied that she introduced him to the drug. The two fell deeply in love, but their selfdestructive, drugfueled relationship frayed Vicious relationship with the rest of the band, which eventually broke up onJanuary 1978, in the midst of a disastrous American tour.Vicious attempts to start a solo career with Spungen as his manager, only to be dismissed as a hasbeen. By now, both he and Spungen are heavily addicted to heroin, and Spungen has spiraled into a deep depression. It ends tragically one night when, during an argument in which Vicious announces his plans to stop using heroin and return to England, a suicidal Spungen begs him to kill her. They fight in a druginduced haze, and he stabs her, although whether or not it was intentional is left to interpretation. They fall asleep and later Spungen awakes and stumbles into the bathroom, where she collapses and dies. Sid is bailed out temporarily by his mother who is also a heroin addict. After getting a pizza, some kids convince him to dance with them. Meanwhile, a taxi with Nancy riding in the back seat picks Vicious up and drives away as Sid and Nancy embrace. The postscript then says that Vicious died of a heroin overdose Nancy and Sid R.I.P. ........

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