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The film starts with a 1998 home movie depicting a fourteen-year-old Winehouse singing along with her long-time friend, Juliette Ashby, at the birthday party of their mutual friend, Lauren Gilbert, at a home in Southgate, London. The rest of the documentary shows the songwriter's life from her early childhood, to her music career, which attained commercial success through her debut album, Frank (2003), and second, final album Back to Black (2006), to her troubled relationships, self-harm, bulimia, the controversial media attention, and her downfall with her drug and alcohol addiction, all until her death in 2011. Winehouse is featured throughout the film talking about her early influences and how she felt about fame, love, family and her music career. |
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| Release dates
16 May 2015 (Cannes)
3 July 2015 (UK)
Running time
128 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $3.4 million
Box office $22 million
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Cast
- Amy Winehouse
- Mitchell Winehouse, father
- Janis Winehouse, mother
- Raye Cosbert, manager and promoter
- Nick Shymanksy, ex-manager and friend
- Blake Fielder-Civil (credited as Blake Fielder), ex-husband
- Mos Def (credited as Yasiin Bey), friend
- Tyler James, friend
- Juliette Ashby, friend
- Lauren Gilbert, friend
- Pete Doherty, friend
- Blake Wood, friend
- Tony Bennett, friend
- Mark Ronson, producer
- Salaam Remi, producer
- Andrew Morris, bodyguard
- Sam Beste, pianist
- Dale Davis, musical director and bass guitarist
- Cristina Romete, doctor
- Chip Somers, drug counsellor
- Shomari Dilon, sound engineer
- 'Spiky' Phil Meynell, promoter of Trash Club
- Monte Lipman, chairman & CEO of Republic Records
- Lucian Grainge, head of Universal Music Group
- Guy Moot, UK President of Sony/ATV Music Publishing
- Darcus Beese, A&R of Island Records
- Nick Gatfield, president of Island Records
