Fame makes monkeys of us all.
Follow Robbie Williams' journey from childhood, to being the youngest member of chart-topping boyband Take That, through to his unparalleled achievements as a record-breaking solo artist – all the while confronting the challenges that stratospheric fame and success can bring.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Dec 20247/10
There's something about the use of the monkey to characterise Robbie Williams that makes this quite a visceral watch at times. The film tells the story of the fairly turbulent rise of this "Take That" singer from boyhood exponent of Gilbert and Sullivan to a man on the right end of an £80 millions record deal. His dad (Steve Pemberton) went off to a football match whilst he was a child and never came back, and that left him with his mum "Janet" (Kate Mulvany) and adoring nan (Alison Steadman) living a pretty much hand to mouth existence and leaving him with a pretty solid foundation for his later emotional and trust issues. Unless you've lived on the moon these last twenty years, then you'll know much of what happens next. What does make this stand out a little more is the fact that Williams himself is behind the project and is in no way afraid to portray himself as a complete ass. His drink, drugs, tantrums and generally spoilt brattishness are laid bare with little, if any, attempt to sanitise. In some ways it reminded me of the recent "Amy" biopic and came hot on the heels of a recent viewing of "Easter Parade" (1948) with both serving, for completely different reasons, to augme
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Cast
- Robbie WilliamsRobbie Williams (voice)
- Jonno DaviesRobbie Williams
- Steve PembertonPeter
- Alison SteadmanBetty
- Kate MulvanyJanet
- Frazer HadfieldNate
- Damon HerrimanNigel Martin-Smith
- Raechelle BannoNicole Appleton
- Tom BudgeGuy Chambers
- Jake SimmanceGary Barlow
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- Michael GraceyDirector
- Simon GleesonWriter
- Michael GraceyWriter
- Oliver ColeWriter
- Erik WilsonDirector of Photography
- Batu SenerOriginal Music Composer
- Lee SmithEditor
- Jeff GrothEditor
- Spencer SusserEditor
- Paul CurrieProducer
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