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Tommy. The movie's purpose and achievement would be hard to figure out on the basis of what its makers say about it. Pete Townshend, who wrote the original album for The Who, says Tommy is an attack on the hypocrisy of organized religion.
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. As a teenager, Tommy ...
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- Ken Russell
- PG
- Roger Daltrey
Mar 26, 1975 · Tommy: Directed by Ken Russell. With Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John. A psychosomatically blind, deaf, and mute boy becomes a master pinball player and, subsequently, the figurehead of a cult.
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- Drama, Musical
- Ken Russell
- 1975-03-26
Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy drama film written and directed by Ken Russell and based on the Who's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a "psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind" boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader.
Nov 20, 2019 · These details make Tommy an essential time capsule of Britain in the ’70s; a nation as morally paranoid and panicked then as it is now. Still, there are plenty of intensely pleasurable sequences in the film.
Tommy (1975) was the film adaptation of the Who's classic concept album Tommy. The film and the album are slightly different (the re-recorded songs pale to the real deal). But it was interesting to see avant-garde film maker Ken Russell re-imagine Tommy for the big screen.
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A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
