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Tommy
After seeing his stepfather murder his father during an argument over his mother, young Tommy goes into shock, suddenly becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind. Later, Tommy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the object of a religious cult.
26 November 1939, Nutbush, Tennessee, USA
16 March 1937, London, England, UK
2 November 1943, London, England, UK
9 October 1944, Chiswick, London, England, UK
25 March 1947, Pinner, Harrow, Middlesex [now London], England, UK
1933, London, England, UK
19 May 1945, London, England, UK
24 June 1944, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK
1923, Southwark, London, England, UK
August 27, 2010
The core essence of Tommy lies in the quivering carriage of Ann-Margret and her heroic personification of Russell's funhouse directorial approach.
October 23, 2004
The effect is exhilarating and exhausting.
June 24, 2006
This is both the movie in which [Russell] is most faithful to the ideas and tone of his material, and one of his very worst films.
March 15, 2011
Trippy rock opera with drug references and sexual imagery.
May 06, 2013
Overlong, over-indulgent, overdone.
May 06, 2013
Fans of the Who beware. Ken Russell applies his rococo outpourings to Pete Townshend's rock opera and botches not only the visuals but the fine score.
May 06, 2013
This 1975 film's inventiveness begins to flag about halfway through, but by then it's a relief. If only Wagner could have lived to see this.
April 15, 2011
An anything-goes phantasmagoria that pushes at the borders of good taste and good sense.
March 26, 2009
Ken Russell's filmization of Tommy is spectacular in nearly every way.
May 09, 2005
It's all fairly excessive and far from subtle, but in this case good taste would have been wildly inappropriate and a fearful drag.
May 06, 2013
One thing is sure: there has never been a movie musical quite like Tommy, a weird, crazy, wonderfully excessive version of The Who's rock opera.
January 02, 2017
Most definitely a musical gem with the Who and everyone in the cast at their best.