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Breaking Glass is a British film of genre Drama directed by Brian Gibson released in USA on 1 october 1980 with Hazel O'Connor

Breaking Glass (1980)

Breaking Glass
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Released in USA 1 october 1980
Length 1h44
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Musical
Rating67% 3.396623.396623.396623.396623.39662

Breaking Glass is a 1980 British film starring Hazel O'Connor, Phil Daniels and Jonathan Pryce and co-produced by Dodi Fayed and written and directed by Brian Gibson.

The film was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.

The album of the soundtrack went Platinum and reached no. 5 in the UK album charts.

Synopsis

The film depicts the rise and fall of Kate (Hazel O'Connor), an angry but creative young singer and songwriter. At the beginning of the film, she is discovered by Danny (Phil Daniels), a young man who desperately wants to become a promoter of music bands but is stuck working for another agent (who forces him to buy hundreds of copies of the singles of one of his artists, Suzie Sapphire, to fix the music charts). Danny takes an active part in controlling Kate's career, impressed with her talent if not her band, whom he promptly fires. He arranges auditions and reaches out to former friends, and in doing so Kate's new band, Breaking Glass is formed. Breaking Glass consists of Kate on vocals and keyboard, best friends Tony (Mark Wingett) and Dave (Gary Tibbs) on lead and bass guitar respectively, the drug-addicted and partially deaf Ken (Jonathan Pryce) on saxophone and the 'mental' Mick (Peter-Hugo Daly) on drums.

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