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Stoned (2006)

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Reviews Counted: 47 Fresh: 7  Rotten:40 Average Rating: 4.1/10

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Rated: 15

Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins

Theatrical Release: 18-11-2005

Synopsis: Director/Producer Stephen Woolley's STONED is a dramatic attempt--researched for 10 years--to accurately portray the controversial events surrounding the death of Rolling Stones founding member and guitarist Brian Jones at age 27, on July 2nd, 1969. To create his work, Woolley... Director/Producer Stephen Woolley's STONED is a dramatic attempt--researched for 10 years--to accurately portray the controversial events surrounding the death of Rolling Stones founding member and guitarist Brian Jones at age 27, on July 2nd, 1969. To create his work, Woolley synthesized the written memoirs and testimonials of the witnesses who were there. Beginning a few months before Jones's death, the film focuses on a relationship he forged with Frank Thorogood (Paddy Constantine), a builder hired to fix up the rock star's home. Alone--save for his girlfriend Anna--and ostracized from his band-mates due to drug problems and legal tangles, Jones draws Thorogood in as a part-time friend and part-time assistant. When Jones is summarily fired from the band--only weeks before his demise--Thorogood is also let go, and becomes jealous and enraged. Deftly placed flashbacks throughout the film catalog Jones's ascent and--more gratuitously--his drug-filled self-destructive descent. Coupling these with the volatile relationship with Thorogood, the film discreetly shows the complex causes of Jones's untimely death. To capture the spirit of the times, Woolley fills his soundtrack with 1960s nuggets, including excellent covers of Stones material by modern British acts like A Band of Bees and Little Barrie. He also shoots the flashbacks and recreated concert footage with a hand-held 16mm camera, achieving a real-life documentary feel. In this film, Brian Jones and his unfortunate end (strangely ruled "death by misadventure" at the time) are cast further into the mythical and legendary status they have achieved--and deserved. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Leo Gregory, Paddy Considine, Monet Mazur, Luke De Woolfson, James D. White

Director: Stephen Woolley

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 5, 2008

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Snap Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
  • Subtitles - English (SDH) - Optional

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More than just another dead-celeb biopic, this is an effective evocation of the era in which Jones lived and died.

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04/01/06
Miles Fielder
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Here's one rock pic that won't fade away.

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12/06/05
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Peter Bradshaw
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3/5

In short, Stoned tells an interesting story and is worth seeing, although it's not quite as good as it would have been if the Stones had coughed up the music rights.

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10/29/05
Matthew Turner
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09/24/05
Rich Cline
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Except for copious amounts of male and female nudity, Stoned has absolutely nothing to recommend it.

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03/01/07
Lewis Beale
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Never finds a way to interest us in what made Jones tick.

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05/04/06
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Leo Gregory's performance as Jones fails to capture his rebel charisma, and the film, like its subject, winds up all wet, floating without direction, and lifeless.

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05/04/06
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Thorogood apparently confessed, on his deathbed, to murdering Jones, but the movie doesn't give us much of a clue why.

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04/29/06
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times
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...a lacking rock-n-roll biopic that has more disjointed disillusionment than a muddy Woodstock hippie.

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04/19/06
Frank Ochieng
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Even The Doors looked like a model of clarity next to this.

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04/14/06
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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I would rather be stoned than have to watch Stoned.

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04/13/06
Robin Clifford
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A flat riff on Jones's short life. You'll get the highlights but no sense of what made him special -- or what really haunted him.

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04/06/06
Desson Thomson
Washington Post
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You can't exactly blame Jones for leading such a clichéd rock-star life. You can, however, blame director Stephen Woolley for making such a clichéd rock-star film.

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04/04/06
Ethan Alter
Premiere Magazine
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A typical, but very effective chronicle of yet another man's downfall in the black hole that is fame through rock and roll, and the complacent enabling of his friends and family.

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04/04/06
Felix Vasquez Jr.
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04/01/06
Peter Sobczynski
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