Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- raucous
- irreverent
- darkly comic
- music movie night
- club culture marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly found the mockumentary-biopic hybrid touching, comic, visually energetic, and ultimately uplifting, though its darker excesses divided viewers.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The film chronicles Frankie Wilde through interview segments and faux-documentary commentary while dramatizing his rise, collapse, and recovery.
Frankie's progressive deafness forces him to abandon conventional DJing and discover new ways to experience rhythm and work.
Frankie's Ibiza superstardom is surrounded by opulence, cocaine, alcohol, sexual excess, and relentless nightlife.
Frankie's recovery begins when he discovers musical properties in vibration and reconnects with dance rhythms without sound.
Films like It's All Gone Pete Tong, and why
24 Hour Party People
music industry excess, addiction, comic irreverence, and a troubled personal decline
Trainspotting
hedonistic nightlife, drug use, friendship, and darkly comic self-destruction
Boogie Nights
music-world ambition, celebrity excess, and an emotionally complicated recovery arc
This Is Spinal Tap
mockumentary form, musical subculture satire, and affectionate comic portraiture
Movie Details
- Director
- Michael Dowse
- Release Date
- 2004-09-12
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 (218)
Cast
- Paul Kaye
- Kate Magowan
- Neil Maskell
- Beatriz Batarda
- Pete Tong
- Mike Wilmot
- Tim Plester
- Paul Spence
- Steve Oram
- Carl Cox
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- fuboTV
- Rent
- Google Play Movies, YouTube
- Buy
- Google Play Movies, YouTube
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is It's All Gone Pete Tong about?
- A hedonistic Ibiza superstar loses his hearing, confronts the collapse of his identity, and searches for a new way back to music.
- What is It's All Gone Pete Tong like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of It's All Gone Pete Tong as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is It's All Gone Pete Tong violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in It's All Gone Pete Tong as mild.
- What did critics think of It's All Gone Pete Tong?
- Critics broadly found the mockumentary-biopic hybrid touching, comic, visually energetic, and ultimately uplifting, though its darker excesses divided viewers.
- Which films are like It's All Gone Pete Tong?
- Films with a similar feel include 24 Hour Party People, Trainspotting, Boogie Nights, and This Is Spinal Tap.
- How long is It's All Gone Pete Tong?
- It's All Gone Pete Tong runs 90 minutes.
- Where can I watch It's All Gone Pete Tong?
- In United States, It's All Gone Pete Tong streams on fuboTV.
