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Director:
Writer:
Derek Jarman (writer)
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Release Date:
September 1979 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Sex, drugs and punk rock. Add violence and time travel and you have Jubilee.
Plot:
Queen Elizabeth I travels to late twentieth-century Britain to discover a tawdry and depressing landscape... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Jenny Runacre ... Queen Elizabeth I / Bod
Nell Campbell ... Crabs (as Little Nell)

Toyah Willcox ... Mad
Jordan ... Amyl Nitrite
Hermine Demoriane ... Chaos
Ian Charleson ... Angel
Karl Johnson ... Sphinx
Linda Spurrier ... Viv
Neil Kennedy ... Max
Jack Birkett ... Borgia Ginz (as Orlando)
Wayne County ... Lounge Lizard

Richard O'Brien ... John Dee
David Brandon ... Ariel (as David Haughton)
Helen Wellington-Lloyd ... Lady in Waiting
Adam Ant ... Kid
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
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1.66 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Toyah Willcox chose the character of Mad while leafing through the script, finding that that character had the most lines. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: After the policemen shoot Angel and Sphinx dead, Sphinx's eyes blink before the camera cuts away. more
Quotes:
Sphinx: I was 15 before I realized I was dead. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Jubilee: A Time Less Golden (2003) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Dover Beach more

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Simplicity is underrated, 9 September 2005
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Author: squelcho

Effortlessly annoying nitpicky artsnobs 28 years on, this film is still achieving its primary aim. It's no more than a fairly precise picture of the sleazy portion of the punk scene in 1977, glued into a sparkly scrapbook for posterity. It's not an attempt to make a great artistic statement about the mythical punk movement so beloved of merchandising vampires. It's an exposition of the low expectations and "up yours" attitude that brought forth the grotty music and trashy DIY fashions in the first place. Dump intellectual baggage, remove head from posterior, and watch it as the fine trashy low budget comedy it is. And be grateful for small mercies. Toyah Wilcox didn't get to sing.

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