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{{short description|2002 film by Michael Winterbottom}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = 24 Hour Party People
| image          = 24 Hour Party People quad poster.jpg
| caption        = UK theatrical poster
| director       = [[Michael Winterbottom]]
| producer       = [[Andrew Eaton]]
| writer         = [[Frank Cottrell-Boyce]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Steve Coogan]]
* [[Paddy Considine]]
* Danny Cunningham
* [[Sean Harris]]
* [[Shirley Henderson]]
* [[Lennie James]]
* [[Andy Serkis]]
* [[John Simm]]}}
| narrator       = 
| music          = 
| cinematography = [[Robby Müller]]
| editing        = [[Trevor Waite]]
| studio         = [[Baby Cow Productions|Baby Cow Films]]<br />[[Revolution Films]]<br />[[Film4 Productions|FilmFour]]<br />[[UK Film Council|Film Council]]<br />[[United Artists]]<ref name="bfi">{{cite web|title=24 Hour Party People (2002)|work=[[British Film Institute]] |url = https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b85c1ed72|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160811122156/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b85c1ed72|url-status = dead|archive-date = 11 August 2016}}</ref><br />The Film Consortium
| distributor    = [[Pathé Distribution]]
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|2002|4|5}}
| runtime        = 117 minutes<ref name="mojo"/>
| country        = United Kingdom<ref name="bfi" />
| language       = English
| budget         = 
| gross          = $2.8 million<ref name="mojo">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=24hourparty.htm|title=24 Hour Party People|access-date=19 August 2019|website=Box Office Mojo}}</ref>
}}
'''''24 Hour Party People''''' is a 2002 British biographical [[comedy drama]] film about [[Manchester]]'s [[Popular music of Manchester|popular music]] community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about [[Factory Records]]. It was written by [[Frank Cottrell Boyce]] and directed by [[Michael Winterbottom]]. The film was entered into the [[2002 Cannes Film Festival]]<ref name="cannes">{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3124030/year/2002.html |title=Festival de Cannes: 24 Hour Party People |access-date=24 October 2009|website=festival-cannes.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822135459/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/3124030/year/2002.html |archive-date=August 22, 2011}}</ref> to positive reviews.

It begins with the [[punk rock]] era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the [[rave]] and [[DJ]] culture and the "[[Madchester]]" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The main character is [[Tony Wilson]] (played by [[Steve Coogan]]), a news reporter for [[Granada Television]] and the head of Factory Records. The narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the careers of the major Factory artists, especially [[Joy Division]] and [[New Order (band)|New Order]], [[A Certain Ratio]], [[the Durutti Column]] and [[Happy Mondays]].<ref name="history">{{Cite journal|last=Smith|first=Evan|date=2013-12-01|title=History and the Notion of Authenticity in Control and 24 Hour Party People|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2013.840537|journal=Contemporary British History|volume=27|issue=4|pages=466–489|doi=10.1080/13619462.2013.840537|s2cid=159889143|issn=1361-9462|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

The film is a dramatisation based on a combination of real events, rumours, [[urban legend]]s and the imaginings of the scriptwriter, as the film makes clear.<ref name="history"/> In one scene, one-time [[Buzzcocks]] member [[Howard Devoto]] (played by [[Martin Hancock]]) is shown having sex with Wilson's first wife in the toilets of a club; the real Devoto, an extra in the scene, [[fourth wall|turns to the camera]] and says, "I definitely don't remember this happening". The fourth wall is frequently broken, with Wilson (who also acts as the narrator) frequently commenting on events directly to camera as they occur, at one point declaring that he is "being [[postmodern]], before it's fashionable". The actors are often intercut with real contemporary concert footage, including the [[Sex Pistols]]' [[Sex Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall|June and July 1976 gig]] at the [[Free Trade Hall|Lesser Free Trade Hall]].

== Plot ==
In 1976 television presenter [[Tony Wilson]] sees [[the Sex Pistols]] perform at the [[Free Trade Hall|Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall]] for the first time. Inspired, Wilson starts a weekly series of [[punk rock]] shows at a Manchester club, where the newly formed [[Joy Division]] perform, led by the erratic, brooding [[Ian Curtis]].<ref name="cannes"/>

Wilson founds a record label, [[Factory Records]],<ref name="cannes"/> and signs Joy Division as the first band; the contract is written in Wilson's blood and gives the Factory artists full control over their music. He hires irascible producer [[Martin Hannett]] to record Joy Division, and soon the band and label have a hit record. In 1980, just before Joy Division is to tour the United States, Curtis hangs himself. Joy Division rename themselves [[New Order (band)|New Order]] and record a hit single, "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]".<ref name="cannes"/>

Wilson opens a nightclub, [[the Haçienda]];<ref name="cannes"/> business is slow at first, but eventually the club is packed each night. Wilson signs another hit band, [[Happy Mondays]], led by [[Shaun Ryder]], and the [[Ecstasy (drug)|ecstasy]]-fuelled [[rave]] culture is born.<ref name="empire"/>

Despite the apparent success, Factory Records is losing money. Every copy of "Blue Monday" sold loses five pence, as the intricate packaging by [[Peter Saville (artist)|Peter Saville]] costs more than the single's sale price. Wilson pays for New Order to record [[Technique (album)|a new album]] in Ibiza, but after two years, they still have not delivered a record. He pays for the Happy Mondays to record their [[Yes Please!|fourth studio album]] in Barbados, but Ryder spends all the money on drugs. When Wilson finally receives the album, he finds that Ryder has refused to record vocals, and all the tracks are instrumentals. At the Haçienda, ecstasy use is curbing alcohol sales and attracting gang violence.<ref name="empire"/>

The Factory partners try to save the business by selling the label to [[London Records]]. However, Wilson reveals that the Factory does not hold contracts with any of its artists and, therefore, doesn't own a catalogue of recordings. This renders the company ultimately worthless and the deal falls through. While smoking [[marijuana]] on the roof of Haçienda after its closing night, Wilson has a vision of God, who assures Wilson he has earned a place in history.<ref name="history"/><ref name="empire"/>

== Cast ==
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* [[Steve Coogan]] as [[Tony Wilson]]<ref name="rotten1"/>
* [[John Thomson (comedian)|John Thomson]] as Charles (Granada TV producer)
* [[Shirley Henderson]] as Lindsay Wilson (Tony's first wife)
* [[Paddy Considine]] as [[Rob Gretton]] ([[Joy Division]]/[[New Order (band)|New Order]] manager)
* [[Lennie James]] as [[Alan Erasmus]] (co-founder of Factory)
* [[Andy Serkis]] as [[Martin Hannett]] (producer)
* [[Sean Harris]] as [[Ian Curtis]] (Joy Division singer)
* Mark Windows as [[John Lydon|Johnny Rotten]]
* [[John Simm]] as [[Bernard Sumner]] (Joy Division/New Order guitarist)
* [[Ralf Little]] as [[Peter Hook]] (Joy Division/New Order bassist)
* Tim Horrocks as [[Stephen Morris (musician)|Stephen Morris]] (Joy Division/New Order drummer)
* Danny Cunningham as [[Shaun Ryder]] ([[Happy Mondays]] singer)
* [[Chris Coghill]] as [[Bez (dancer)|Bez]] (Happy Mondays dancer and percussionist)
* [[Paul Popplewell]] as [[Paul Ryder]] (Happy Mondays bassist, brother of Shaun)
* [[Ron Cook]] as Derek Ryder (the Ryder brothers' father)
* [[Kieran O'Brien]] as Nathan (Happy Mondays manager)
* [[Raymond Waring]] as [[Vini Reilly]] (singer-guitarist of [[the Durutti Column]])
* [[Dave Gorman]] as [[Jon the Postman]] (postman/punk singer)
* [[Peter Kay]] as Don Tonay
* [[Enzo Cilenti]] as [[Peter Saville (graphic designer)|Peter Saville]] (Factory graphic designer)
* [[Rob Brydon]] as Ryan Letts (journalist)
* [[Simon Pegg]] as [[Mick Middles]] (author, then-[[Sounds (magazine)|''Sounds'' magazine]] writer)
* [[Christopher Eccleston]] as [[Boethius]] (in disguise as a beggar)
* [[John Stammers]] as [[Marc Riley]] (scene deleted)
* [[Sam Riley]] as [[Mark E. Smith]] (scene deleted)
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* [[Helen Schlesinger]] as Hilary
* [[Kate Magowan]] as Yvette
* [[Keith Allen (actor)|Keith Allen]] as [[London Recordings|Roger Ames]]

'''Cameos'''
* [[Tony Wilson]] as ''[[Wheel of Fortune (UK game show)|Wheel of Fortune]]'' director
* [[Nigel Pivaro]] as actor at Granada
* [[Kenny Baker (English actor)|Kenny Baker]] as zookeeper
* [[Howard Devoto]] as cleaner/himself
* [[Rowetta]] as herself, reprising her time with [[Happy Mondays]]
* [[Terri Seymour]] as herself, reprising her co-host gig on ''Wheel of Fortune''
* [[Paul Ryder]] as drug dealer and head Hacienda doorman Pel
* [[Clint Boon]] as Ernie, a train conductor
* [[Elizabeth Kelly]] as [[Ian Curtis|Ian]]'s nan
* [[Martin Coogan]], Steve's older brother
* [[Jon DaSilva]] as himself, reprising his time as resident DJ at [[The Haçienda]]
* [[Mark E. Smith]] ([[The Fall (band)|the Fall]]) as himself
* [[Mike Pickering]] (former DJ at The Haçienda, [[Factory Records]] unofficial A&R)
* [[Dave Haslam]] (former DJ at The Haçienda)
* [[Vini Reilly]] (first artist of [[Factory Records]]) scene deleted, clip only
* [[Gary Mounfield]] ([[the Stone Roses]])
* [[Fiona Allen]] who worked on the door at the Hacienda, playing herself.
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== Production ==
Director Michael Winterbottom held talks with the [[BBC]] about financing the film, but the studio "weren’t convinced anyone was interested in Tony."<ref name="Phil Hoad">{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/06/how-we-made-24-hour-party-people-steve-coogan-michael-winterbottom |title= 'I did my climactic speech – then took half an E': Steve Coogan on making 24 Hour Party People |author= Phil Hoad |date= 6 Feb 2023 |website= theguardian.com |publisher= Guardian News & Media Limited |access-date= 31 May 2023}}</ref> Once production got underway, Winterbottom emulated a [[Documentary film|documentary style]] of shooting and [[cinéma vérité]], as cast members were encouraged to improvise and [[Blocking (stage)#Blocking in theater and film|blocking]] was loose or non-existent. The character of Tony Wilson is an [[unreliable narrator]] who regularly breaks the [[fourth wall]], referencing Wilson's job as a TV presenter.<ref name="Phil Hoad"/> Real documentary footage of the period was also spliced into the film.<ref name="Derek Elley">{{cite web |url= https://variety.com/2002/film/markets-festivals/24-hour-party-people-2-1200550513/ |title= 24 Hour Party People |author= "Derek Elley |date= 28 Mar 2002 |website= variety.com |publisher= Variety Media |access-date= 31 May 2023}}</ref>

Steve Coogan and Wilson were acquainted before filming, having first met in 1975. When Coogan later worked on a [[ITV Granada|Granada Television]] late night show, the two men occasionally socialized.<ref name="Paul Morley">{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/feb/23/tonywilson |title= 24 Hour Party People: shooting the past |author= Paul Morley |date= 22 Feb 2001 |website= theguardian.com |publisher= Guardian News & Media Limited|access-date= 31 May 2023}}</ref> Winterbottom recalled that Wilson helped the production team make connections with "everyone involved in the scene."<ref name="Phil Hoad"/>

Production designer [[Mark Tildesley (production designer)|Mark Tildesley]] had the Haçienda nightclub interior rebuilt to its exact proportions in a Manchester warehouse.<ref name="Phil Hoad"/><ref name="Derek Elley"/> The original building had been demolished and replaced with luxury flats in 2002.<ref name="David Ward">{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/society/2002/aug/29/communities.arts |title= Hacienda fans rave at plan for luxury flats |author= David Ward |date= 29 Aug 2002 |website= theguardian.com |publisher= Guardian News & Media Limited |access-date= 31 May 2023}}</ref> Coogan, who performed at the club in 1986, "got goosebumps when [he] walked into the re-created Haçienda." To achieve the needed atmosphere, the production ran it as a real nightclub for a couple of nights, and [[New Order (band)|New Order]] worked the DJ booth.<ref name="Phil Hoad"/>

As usual with anything related to Factory Records, the film received its own [[Factory Records discography|FAC catalogue number]]. ''24 Hour Party People'' is known as FAC 401, being first on the hundred that features other video & multimedia releases.<ref>{{cite web|title=Factory Records: FAC 401 '24 Hour Party People'|url=https://www.factoryrecords.org/factory-records/fac-401-24-hour-party-people.php|website=Factory Records|access-date=22 September 2018}}</ref>

== Reception and awards ==
;Aggregate 
{{Rotten Tomatoes prose|87|7.3|99|The colorful, chaotic ''24 Hour Party People'' nimbly captures the spirit of the Manchester music scene.}}<ref name="rotten1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/24_hour_party_people|title = 24 Hour Party People|website = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=28 November 2024}}</ref> {{Metacritic film prose|85|29}}<ref>{{cite web|title=24 Hour Party People |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/24-hour-party-people|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=28 November 2024}}</ref>

;Contemporaneous 
[[Roger Ebert]] gave it four out of four stars, writing, "The movie works so well because it evokes genuine, not manufactured, nostalgia. It records a time when the inmates ran the asylum, when music lovers got away with murder. It loves its characters."<ref>{{cite web|title=24 Hour Party People |first=Roger |last=Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/24-hour-party-people-2002|website=[[RogerEbert.com]]|date=16 August 2002|access-date=28 November 2024}}</ref>

''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' gave it four out of five stars, highlighting the film's director.<ref name="empire">{{Cite web|title=24 Hour Party People|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/24-hour-party-people-review/|access-date=28 November 2024|website=Empire|date=January 2000 }}</ref>

The film was nominated for the [[Palme d'Or]] at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, competing against other films the same year, including ''[[About Schmidt]]'', and ''[[The Pianist (2002 film)|The Pianist]]''.<ref name="Palme d'Or">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2002/allSelections.html |title=Official Selection 2002: All the Selection |work=festival-cannes.fr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214200458/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/2002/allSelections.html |archive-date=14 December 2013 |df=dmy}}</ref>

;Retrospective 
In 2019, ''[[The Guardian]]'' ranked the film 49th in its 100 best films of the 21st century list.<ref>{{Cite web|date=13 September 2019|title=The 100 best films of the 21st century|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/sep/13/100-best-films-movies-of-the-21st-century|access-date=24 September 2019|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

== Soundtrack ==
{{Infobox album
| name         = 24 Hour Party People
| type         = soundtrack
| artist       = various artists
| cover        = 24 Hour Party People album.jpg
| alt          =
| released     = {{Start date|df=y|2002|4|9}}
| recorded     = 1976–2002
| venue        =
| studio       =
| genre        = * [[Punk rock]]
* [[post-punk]]
* [[Madchester]]
* [[electronica]]
* [[House music|house]]
| length       =
| label        = [[FFRR Records|FFRR]]
| producer     = [[Pete Tong]]
| prev_title   =
| prev_year    =
| next_title   =
| next_year    =
| misc         = {{Extra album cover
 | header  = Alternative cover
 | type    = soundtrack
 | cover   = 24 Hour Party People album1.jpg
 | border  =
 | alt     =
 | caption = US album cover
}}
}}

The soundtrack to ''24 Hour Party People'' features songs by artists closely associated with Factory Records who were depicted in the film.<ref name="allmusic"/> These include Happy Mondays, Joy Division and [[the Durutti Column]]. Manchester band the [[Buzzcocks]] are featured, as are [[the Clash]]. The album begins with "[[Anarchy in the U.K.]]" by the [[Sex Pistols]], the band credited in the film with inspiring Factory Records co-founder Tony Wilson to promote music.<ref name="allmusic">{{Cite web|title=24 Hour Party People|url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/24-hour-party-people-mw0000661518|access-date=2012-12-14|website=allmusic.com}}</ref>

New tracks recorded for the album include Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades", from a concert performance by New Order with [[Moby]] and [[Billy Corgan]].<ref name="allmusic"/>

{{Music ratings
| MC = 86/100<ref name=MC>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/24hourpartypeople/ost?q=24%20Hour%20Party%20People |title=OST Reviews, Ratings, Credits, and More at Metacritic |website=Metacritic|access-date=14 August 2011}}</ref>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name=allmusic/>
| rev2 = ''[[Blender (magazine)|Blender]]''
| rev2score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>Any collection that encompasses A Guy Called Gerald's peerless dance anthem "Voodoo Ray" and Joy Division's exquisite "Atmosphere" is "double double good," as the Happy Mondays' drug-addled singer Shaun Ryder used to quip. [#9, p.158]</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[E! Online|E!]]''
| rev3score = B+<ref name=MC/>
| rev4 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev4Score = 8/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/6233.htm |title=Latest Reviews |website=NME|access-date=14 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605174526/http://www.nme.com/reviews/6233.htm |archive-date=5 June 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5Score = 7.0/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22384-24-hour-party-people?artist_title=22384-24-hour-party-people |title=Pitchfork: Album Reviews: Various Artists: 24 Hour Party People |website=Pitchforkmedia.com |date=19 August 2002 |access-date=14 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113174405/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/22384-24-hour-party-people?artist_title=22384-24-hour-party-people |archive-date=13 January 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>This is a sheer visceral delight. [May 2002, p.124]</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev7Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thesexpistols/albums/album/307860/review/6211078/24_hour_party_people |title=Various Artists: 24 Hour Party People |magazine=Rolling Stone |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071015143504/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/thesexpistols/albums/album/307860/review/6211078/24_hour_party_people |archive-date=15 October 2007 }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev8score = 7/10<ref>Will prove a delight to punters pursuing a Best Madchester Compilation Ever! as long as they forget The Stone Roses ever existed, and assume Morrissey came from another planet. [May 2002, p.116]</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[URB (magazine)|URB]]''
| rev9score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>Nearly every song here can be called seminal without the slightest flinch. [Oct 2002, p.102]</ref>
}}

=== Track list ===
# "[[Anarchy in the U.K.]]" ([[Sex Pistols]]) – 3:33<ref name="allmusic"/>
# "24 Hour Party People ([[Jon Carter]] Mix)" ([[Happy Mondays]]) – 4:30<ref name="pitchfork"/>
# "[[Transmission (song)|Transmission]]" ([[Joy Division]]) – 3:36
# "[[Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've)]]" ([[Buzzcocks]]) – 2:42
# "[[Janie Jones (song)|Janie Jones]]" ([[The Clash]]) – 2:06
# "[[New Dawn Fades]]" ([[New Order (band)|New Order]] featuring [[Moby]]) – 4:52
# "[[Atmosphere/She's Lost Control|Atmosphere]]" (Joy Division) – 4:09
# "Otis" ([[The Durutti Column]]) – 4:16
# "[[Voodoo Ray]]" ([[A Guy Called Gerald]]) – 2:43
# "[[Temptation (New Order song)|Temptation]]" ([[New Order (band)|New Order]]) – 5:44
# "[[Loose Fit]]" (Happy Mondays) – 4:17
# "[[Pacific State (song)|Pacific State]]" ([[808 State]]) – 3:53
# "[[Blue Monday (New Order song)|Blue Monday]]" (New Order) – 7:30
# "[[Move Your Body (Marshall Jefferson song)|Move Your Body]]" ([[Marshall Jefferson]]) – 5:15
# "[[Atmosphere/She's Lost Control|She's Lost Control]]" (Joy Division) – 4:44
# "Hallelujah (Club Mix)" (Happy Mondays) – 5:40
# "[[Here to Stay (New Order song)|Here To Stay]]" (New Order) – 4:58
# "[[Love Will Tear Us Apart]]" (Joy Division) – 3:24<ref name="allmusic"/>

=== Other songs in the film ===
Several songs appear in the film but are not on the soundtrack album, including:<ref name="pitchfork"/>
* "[[The Stooges (album)|No Fun]]", performed by the [[Sex Pistols]] (archival video footage)
* "[[Money's Too Tight (to Mention)]]", performed by [[Simply Red]] (archival video footage)
* "Make Up to Break Up", performed by [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] (archival video footage)
* "[[The Passenger (song)|The Passenger]]", performed by [[Iggy Pop]] (archival video footage)
* "[[In the City (The Jam song)|In The City]]", performed by [[the Jam]] (archival video footage)
* "[[No More Heroes (song)|No More Heroes]]", performed by [[the Stranglers]] (archival video footage)
* "[[The Lion Sleeps Tonight|Wimoweh]]", performed by [[Karl Denver]] (archival video footage)
* "Lazyitis", performed by Happy Mondays (archival video footage)
* "Old Lost John", performed by [[Sonny Terry]] (from the film ''[[Stroszek]]'', during Ian Curtis suicide scene)
* "[[World in Motion]]", performed by [[New Order (band)|New Order]]
* "Jacqueline", performed by [[the Durutti Column]]
* "[[Digital (Joy Division song)|Digital]]", performed by [[Joy Division]]
* "Flight", performed by [[A Certain Ratio]]
* "Skipscada", performed by A Certain Ratio
* "[[Tart Tart]]", performed by [[Happy Mondays]]
* "[[Freaky Dancin']]", performed by Happy Mondays
* "[[Wrote for Luck]]", performed by Happy Mondays
* "[[Kinky Afro]]", performed by Happy Mondays
* "Sunshine and Love", performed by Happy Mondays
* "[[Satan Live|Satan]]", performed by [[Orbital (band)|Orbital]]
* "[[Go (Moby song)|Go]]", performed by [[Moby]]
* "[[Louie Louie]]" (partial), performed by John The Postman
* "[[Louie Louie]]", performed by Factory All-Stars
* "King of the Beats", performed by [[Mantronix]]
* "Solid Air", performed by [[John Martyn]]

===Chart positions===
{|class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
!Chart (2002)
!Peak<br>position
|-
{{album chart|New Zealand|48|artist=Soundtrack|album=24 Hour Party People|rowheader=true|access-date=18 June 2014}}
|}

== Home media ==
As of November 2023, the film was available for free on [[Roku]], [[Pluto TV|Pluto]], [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] and [[Tubi]] streaming networks.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=Where to Watch 24 Hour Party People |url=https://www.roku.com/whats-on/movies/24-hour-party-people?id=6b012873556b5112b850b3cd8594b16d |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=Roku}}</ref>

== See also ==
* ''[[So It Goes (TV series)|So It Goes]]''
* ''[[Control (2007 film)|Control]]''
* [[List of cult films]]

== References ==
{{reflist|40em}}

== External links ==
{{Wikiquote}}
* {{IMDb title|0274309}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|24_hour_party_people}}
* {{Metacritic film}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224143217/http://www.ukonscreen.com/kbefidb-24-Hour-Party-People-(2002).html ''24-Hour Party People'' filming locations]

{{Michael Winterbottom}}
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