It’s got cross-demographic appeal for kids and adults in its story of the first people to really break through the clouds in a hot air balloon. It’s a shame because this is a film that deserved more attention. Tom Harper directed this film that just landed in theaters at the end of 2019 and was quickly shuffled off to Amazon. Coogan plays Tony Wilson, the head of Factory Records, and the dramedy charts the emergence of groups like Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays. Michael Winterbottom directs his muse Steve Coogan (the two also worked together on The Trip movies, Tristram Shandy, and others) in a biopic of the vibrant Manchester music scene in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s.
