Pink Floyd - The Wall

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Pink Floyd - The Wall

R

1982

1h 39m

Musical

Drama

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In this visual riff on Pink Floyd's album "The Wall," successful but drugged-out musician Pink (Bob Geldof) is looking back on his isolated childhood from the confines of a Los Angeles hotel room. Through a swirl of flashbacks and chemical-induced hallucinations, Pink recalls his lonely upbringing, during which he built a symbolic wall to the world as he coped with the death of his father (James Laurenson) and the overbearing ways of his mother (Christine Hargreaves).

Critics Consensus

Pink Floyd's expression of generational angst is given striking visual form The Wall, although this ambitious feature's narrative struggles to marry its provocative images and psychedelic soundtrack into a compelling whole.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

11/06/2018

4/4

This isn't the most fun to listen to and some viewers don't find it to much fun to watch, but the 1982 film is without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock.

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Yardena Arar

Associated Press

10/23/2018

It's a pretty grim portrait, but even worse it is often repetitive and boring. There are probably enough powerful segments for half a dozen or so outstanding rock videos but not a full-length feature.

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Bruce McCabe

Boston Globe

04/27/2018

The film is explosively wild, raw, primitive, sometimes inarticulate. It is also totally theatrical and compelling. It's film as primal scream; seething with anger, alienation and despair.

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Quentin Crisp

Christopher Street

05/07/2024

The scenes of violence are marvelously put together. It is hard to realize that we are watching fiction... However, although The Wall is horrifying, it is not lurid; we are never allowed to derive from this film any satisfaction for our kinkiness.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

08/03/2022

B-

Not for everyone.

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

02/12/2022

4/4

What is the price of fame and is it vicariously experienced in concert with the successful or is it in the foundational underpinnings of a life lived in turmoil. Pink Floyd The Wall attempts to examine this unusual notion in cinematic form.

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Mark

04/15/2024

Awesome movie, it's a musical to most of the wall cd. There's no real talking or anything.

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Vincent S

@Vin_E_At_The_Movies May 16

One of the most fascinating visceral experiences of all time on film. This has to be seen on a big screen with blaring music. Let's get an IMAX revival going. Maybe it doesn't necessarily help if you don't love Pink Floyd's music but even if you don't this movie will possibly shake you up and power you up.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Mar 26

The worldwide gross is $22,265,763.00.

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Lariste L

@RT70611960 Feb 12

A grim, miserable, bleak "surreal social realist" film about the psyche of a self-pitying songwriter (Roger Waters) musing on post-war loss, his unhappy schooling years, the spectre of fascism, the propaganda and conformity of mass-produced entertainment etc etc. While the album features excellent musicianship, this film has . . a lot of re-recorded bits? Also - the album is a mysterious and absorbing work (for teenagers mostly, I suspect), but also excellently produced and performed. The film is somewhat of it's time, with another entertainer playing the permanently sullen Roger Waters as he "sinks into madness and isolation".

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Jason M

@Jmo167 Feb 4

An amazing and extremely well-made movie that really captures what Pink Floyd's music is about. The beautiful animation still holds up today and ties in perfectly with the darker tone of his music, making the viewing experience a blast throughout. Also, the mix of animation and live action help make the movie feel more impactful and connected to Pink Floyd himself. Which goes to show why this movie is beloved by so many and is still talked about today.

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Dwane H

@RevHamby Jan 9

A great movie. A dark portrait of a romantic poetic heart slowly hammered into insanity by the system and the people he trusts.

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Synopsis

In this visual riff on Pink Floyd's album "The Wall," successful but drugged-out musician Pink (Bob Geldof) is looking back on his isolated childhood from the confines of a Los Angeles hotel room. Through a swirl of flashbacks and chemical-induced hallucinations, Pink recalls his lonely upbringing, during which he built a symbolic wall to the world as he coped with the death of his father (James Laurenson) and the overbearing ways of his mother (Christine Hargreaves).

Director: Alan Parker
Producer: Alan Marshall
Screenwriter: Roger Waters
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Tin Blue, Goldcrest Films, Ltd., Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Rating: R
Genre: Musical, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 6, 1982, Wide
Release Date (DVD): Jan 25, 2005
Runtime: 1h 39m
Sound Mix: Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Dolby Stereo, Surround
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)