# Quadrophenia (1979)

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**Runtime**: 120 min
**Genres**: Drama, Music
**Directed by**: Franc Roddam
**Written by**: Martin Stellman, Franc Roddam, Dave Humphries
**Starring**: Phil Daniels, Leslie Ash, Phil Davis, Mark Wingett, Sting, Ray Winstone

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## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

City boy swaps typing pool for tailoring pins and scooter tailgates in a razor-sharp slice of 1964 London. Jimmy’s goggles and gabardine mask midlife before he’s twenty. The Mods versus Rockers brawl on Brighton beach like a last rites ritual.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, neon-soaked, outsider, playful

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