The actors are often intercut with real contemporary concert footage, including the Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall. The label financed the Hacienda Club, a Manchester disco of the late 1980s that was the cradle of rave culture.
In one scene, one-time Buzzcocks member Howard Devoto (played by Martin Hancock) is shown having sex with Wilson's first wife in the toilets of a club the real Devoto, an extra in the scene, turns to the camera and says, "I definitely don't remember this happening." The fourth wall is frequently broken, with Wilson (who also acts as the narrator) frequently commenting on events directly to camera as they occur, at one point declaring that he is "being postmodern, before it's fashionable". FICTIONALIZED-and proud of it-24 Hour Party People is a goofy, energetic docu-something about the history of Factory Records, an independent co-op label based in Manchester, England's second city. The film is a dramatisation based on a combination of real events, rumours, urban legends, and the imaginings of the scriptwriter – as the film makes clear. The narrative largely follows his career, while also covering the careers of the major Factory artists, especially Joy Division and New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column and Happy Mondays. The main character is Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), a news reporter for Granada Television and the head of Factory Records. The official website of Molson Coors Beverage Company, which for more than two centuries has been brewing beverages that unite people for all of life’s moments. It begins with the punk rock era of the late 1970s and moves through the 1980s into the rave and DJ culture and the "Madchester" scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom. Tropes: Actor Allusion: Taken almost to Recursive Reality levels. 24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British comedy-drama film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. Compare Control, a more serious biopic that specifically focuses on Ian Curtis.