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Stoned (2005) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Catalan ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
98 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Special Edition
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Stephen Woolley

Written By:
Geoffrey Giuliano
Neal Purvis

Actors:
Leo Gregory ..... Brian Jones
Paddy Considine ..... Frank Thorogood
David Morrissey ..... Tom Keylock
Ben Whishaw ..... Keith Richards
Tuva Novotny ..... Anna Wohlin
Amelia Warner ..... Janet
Monet Mazur ..... Anita Pallenberg
Luke de Woolfson ..... Mick Jagger
David Walliams ..... Accountant
David Williams ..... Speecy
Gary Love ..... Jeff
Johnny Shannon ..... Landlord
Melanie Ramsay ..... Mrs. Thorogood
Rüdiger Rudolph ..... Volker
Ralph Brown ..... Gysin

Synopsis:

This film focuses on the founding member of the Stones, the paranoid junkie that was Brian Jones. It charts the rise of the Cheltenham teenager who excels in music and girls. Jones portrays an iconic status for more than just his music. His fashion sense of furs, scarves and jewellery transcends the boundaries between male and female acceptability and makes him a total fashion icon as well as a womanizing rock star. Stoned tells the story of his death and the events leading up to it. How he moved to London at 19 as a rebellious teenager to becoming an ex-Rolling Stone, the murder of Brian, and the inter-locking destinies of the six main characters. After forming the Stones in 1962, seven years later his life comes to an end. Jones is found dead at the deep end of his own swimming pool. Officially, he drowned by misadventure under the influence of drink and drugs, however the coroner concludes that the levels of alcohol and drugs were minimal in his system at the time of death.

Fact-based story about the drug-addled and sordid life of The Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones. Unfortunately the story moves so quickly into the sensationalized decadence and drug-induced state of Jones, that the unknowing viewer has to wonder why anyone would care. There are only a few framing sequences with members of The Stones, particularly Keith Richards, that show they had a great respect for him and tried to bring him back into the band as he drifted away. Mixed into the destruction of Jones is a common builder, Frank Thorogood, who is given the unenviable task of trying to please Jones by rebuilding his estate and to watch him per Jones' manager's instructions. Thorogood's life is so far removed from all of the sex and drugs that he sees, that he envies and desires the tawdry life as well, but never quite fits in. Unfortunately, at least according to this film and according to a supposed death bed confessional of Thorogood in 1993, it led to Thorogood's murder of Jones in a swimming pool "accident".

A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 February, 2023.