Stoned (2005)
showbiz drama
directed
by : Stephen Woolley
featuring
: Leo Gregory - Paddy Considine - Monet Mazur - Tuva Novotny - David Morrissey
running
time : 1 hour 37 minutes
The final days of one of the truly legendary
figures of British rock & roll are explored in this biographical drama,
which marks the directorial debut of veteran producer Stehen Woolley. Brian
Jones (Leo Gregory) was one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones,
and his incisive blues guitar style, broad range of musical influences,
and striking blond good looks helped establish him as part of the true
royalty of the British music scene. But by 1969, Jones' life had begun
to spiral out of control; his appetite for drugs made him wildly unreliable,
his arrests for possession of marijuana prevented The Stones from touring
the United States, his bandmates Mick Jagger (Luke De Woolfson) and Keith
Richards (Ben Whishaw) had grown tired of working with him, and his longtime
paramour Anita Pallenberg (Monet Mazur) had become involved with fellow
Stone Richards. Worried about Jones' drug abuse, the band's tour manager,
Tom Keylock (David Morrissey), hires middle-aged carpenter Frank Thorogood
(Paddy Considine) to do some repairs at Jones' estate, but also asks him
to look after the musician and try to keep him away from dope. Keylock
underestimates the power of Brian's personality, and before long, the straight-arrow
Thorogood is Jones' household manservant and partner in hedonism, through
Thorogood begins to chafe at the emotional games JOnes enjoys playing with
his new companion. Stoned was adapted in part from three different books
on Brian Jones and The Rolling Stones as well as recently uncovered interviews
with people who claim to have been involved in Brian Jones' death.