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Flame

Play trailer Flame 1975,  1h 31m,  Musical/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist - - 4 Reviews Tomatometer 54% 50+ Ratings Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 4 Reviews 54% Popcornmeter 50+ Ratings
A band's sudden rise to fame is beset with internal bickering and the double dealings of the music industry.

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Mark Kermode Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube) May 7, 2025
It's not a pop glam jolly film. It is a really brilliant depiction of being in a pop band. Go to Full Review
Deborah Ross The Spectator May 1, 2025
We know the beats: young lads dream of making it big, do make it big, but are destroyed by a business that only sees them as cash cows. Nevertheless it is told with a raw energy. Go to Full Review
Eddie Harrison film-authority.com May 19, 2025
4/5
...Flame reflects with remarkable accuracy on the financial and sexual climate of 1975, but also comes up rather winningly in bottling the Britishness of the band…a valuable social document featuring inconvenient truths about the chicanery of the mid-70’s Go to Full Review
Christopher Null Filmcritic.com Mar 28, 2004
2.5/5
Why saddle them with an "evils of the music empire" story? Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Richard Loncraine

Director

Don Powell

Charlie

Dave Hill

Barry

Tom Conti

Robert Seymour

Alan Lake

Jack Daniels

Johnny Shannon

Ron Harding

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Movie Info

Synopsis A band's sudden rise to fame is beset with internal bickering and the double dealings of the music industry.
Director
Richard Loncraine
Producer
Gavrik Losey
Screenwriter
Andrew Birkin, Dave Humphries
Genre
Musical, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 31m
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