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A Complete Unknown (2024)

Drama Musical
Rated R
141 min.
Release Date
December 25, 2024
Digital Date
February 25, 2025
DVD Release Date
April 1, 2025 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
James Mangold
Writer
Jay Cocks, James Mangold
Cast
Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Norbert Leo Butz, Dan Fogler, Scoot McNairy
Running Time
141 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language

Set in the influential New York music scene of the early 60s, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN follows 19-year-old Minnesota musician BOB DYLAN’s (Timothée Chalamet) meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts – his songs and mystique becoming a worldwide sensation – culminating in his groundbreaking electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. A Film By James Mangold.

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I usually hate biopics about musicians and artists. There may be no type of people less interesting and unimportant to make a biopic about, unless it’s a movie about a filmmaker. Further, most of these biopics follow a similar arc: rise to fame, ego and drugs and/or disease gets the best of them, movie over. Full movie review »