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Release Date
• USA: Jul 28, 2006
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, drug use and sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country UK
Production Companies
Potboiler Productions, EM Media, FilmFour, HanWay Films, Screen East
Studio IFC Films
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Genre: Drama
Tagline: From some people... Rock & Roll was always a freak show.
Plot: Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (LOST IN LA MANCHA) mark an extraordinary narrative debut with this faux documentary about Siamese twin punk rockers in the early 1970s. Stunning photography by Anthony Dod Mantle, which occasionally borders on the abstract, augments a story already rife with dramatic potential, which was based on the novel by Brian Aldiss. Recalling Alan Clarke's iconic Sex Pistols biopic SID AND NANCY in its grittiness and the volatile relationship at its core, BROTHERS OF THE HEAD centers on Tom and Barry Howe (real-life twins Harry and Luke Treadaway). Siamese twins recruited at a young age by a sleazy producer, the twins are groomed for a stardom which will inevitably become their downfall. Barry's innate nihilism and anger make him the ideal frontman for the band, while Tom studiously learns the guitar from a bandmate (Bryan Dick). But the brothers' dalliances with drugs, girls, and fame, added to the psychological power struggles already at work between them, eventually put them on the road to destruction. Equal parts homage to rock 'n roll and an insightful character study of a complex relationship, the film fascinates while not taking itself too seriously: Ken Russell's unfinished biopic of the boys is particularly hilarious. The excellent soundtrack of
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Even is you’re not a fan of the time and its music, Brothers of the Head” is fascinating to watch as the makers build a convincing mockumentary that, if I didn’t know better, could be the real thing. Not since This is Spinal Tap” have I been pulled in tobelieve what is fiction that plays like fact. B+--Robin and Laura Clifford
The choices made while making this film could have rendered it a freakshow, or even worse, a pretentious exercise in self-referentially disappearing up its own rear end. Happily, it sidesteps those pratfalls to become a weird, yet captivating, story.  --Jay Seaver (eFilmCritic.com)
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| Directed by |
Keith Fulton
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| Written by |
Brian Aldiss
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| Cast |
Jonathan Pryce
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