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| It's All Gone Pete Tong | 
 enlarge | Director: Michael Dowse
Actors: Paul Kaye, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan, Mike Wilmot, Neil Maskell
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.94
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 13808
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D11967D
ISBN: 1404991719
UPC: 043396119673
EAN: 9781404991712
ASIN: B000A7LR6Y
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: September 20, 2005
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Product Description
Based on a true story this is a drama following the tragic life of legendary british dj frankie wilde. The story takes us through frankies life as one of the best djs alive through his subsequent battle with a hearing disorder culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/28/2006 Starring: Paul Kaye Kate Mcgowan Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R
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| Customer Reviews: Read 22 more reviews...
 Love it! December 16, 2008
Great movie! It's funny, it's sad, it's serious and silly. Also the soundtrack is awesome and fun. I highly recommend watching the movie with the volume turned all the way up. The cast is brilliant and convincing.
 They told me Frankie's story--and although the penny dropped... November 25, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's All Gone Pete Tong certainly is an unusual title for a movie; and that's certainly one of the reasons I chose to watch and review this film. We get a mock biopic of a young DJ on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye) is a DJ who lives for the club scene where he is a prominent, wildly successful DJ--and surrounds himself with friends who only like him when things are going his way. Yep, he gets married to a model who works with him in one of his music videos and they adopt a son; but his happiness and the wild ride of fame only lasts so long.
Things change radically for Frankie when he goes deaf after too much loud music in night clubs and a wild lifestyle that his doctor tells him didn't exactly help, either. Frankie's so-called friends rapidly abandon him; even his wife supermodel wife Sonja (Kate Magowan) and their son leave him for one of Frankie's friends! The record companies and the discos soon abandon him also because, after all, when you're deaf you just might not stay on top of the heap as a hot, hot, hot DJ.
Frankie slips into total despair and fantasizes about being chased by a bear in a apron when he is on one of his countless drug trips; and it is only when he thinks to learn to read lips does the possibility of making a comeback seem real to Frankie. With the help of a woman who works at a lip reading school for the deaf (Penelope, played by Beatriz Batarda), Frankie regains his ability to be a top notch, in demand DJ once more.
Questions remain, though--will Frankie want this lifestyle back? What happens to him and Penelope--or will Sonja come back to him once again now that can make tons of money? No plot spoilers here, folks--but there's an ending that I admit did make me smile.
To its credit, the movie uses real life DJs and people in the business to make the pretend biopic as realistic as possible. However, although this film purports to be a comedy, I just didn't laugh that much when I saw it. It's not really all that funny except for a few chuckles here and there; and the disability issue Frankie copes with detracts from any true comedy that they may have tried to produce.
There are a few extras but the best is the "making of" featurette.
Overall, It's All Gone Pete Tong is a movie you can watch when nothing better is on TV. No, it's certainly NOT the worst flick I've ever seen; but it just didn't strike me as being that funny. The acting is just OK and the cinematography was average. Save this one for a rainy day when you're bored with nothing else better to do. It's just average, folks!
 Great Movie, But Fair Audio October 9, 2008
I did love the story, and overall the entire production of this movie. With the exception of the audio. So I had to ding it down to 4 stars.
When I went into the audio setup to find it had only basic Dolby 5.1 Surround I was surprised. Half way through the movie I was desperately wishing that this movie with a story with such a large emphasis on sound and music would have something better to offer such as Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master Audio.
I certainly don't find myself wanting HD audio on every movie I watch, but this movie would have been so much better with it.
All Gone Pete Tong July 24, 2008
This movie is a great movie if you are into the whole Rave culture but also if you just like music. This movie depicts a high profile DJ who overcomes his drug addiction and his lose of hearing. Its a cult classic and very strongly recommend it!
DJ who turned deaf June 30, 2008
I was actually able to find DVD of this movie in my local library. It is a story about DJ who at the peak of his successful career turns deaf. Typical things happen shortly thereafter: his wife leaves him, his friends bail out, drug dealers swarm to feed him coke in his moments of personal weakness, the music industry executives do their best to write him off and move on to the next DJ guy. While the documentary style of the movie was boring for the first half of the movie, the second half is the best. It is filled with comedic moments about what is means to be deaf and adjust to the new environment by a person who was not born with such disability. But the end is all too predictable and sappy as our main character Framkie Wilde falls in love with a deaf girl, they have a child together and after ovecoming his disability in the most unusual and unique way they both elope in the world of ordinary, anonymous people. This is not a traditional "ovecoming - the - life -of - hardships" kind of movie, it is raw and sincere. But as I said it's main weakness is that it is produced as a form of documentary, which sort of makes it boring. It is almost like listening thru narations thru a half of the movie. The actor portraying Frankie Wilde was great. I never saw him in any movies before, but this guy can act....
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