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Sid and Nancy (1986) More at IMDbPro »

• Anachronisms: Set in the late 1970's, shows a 1985 Honda Civic in the background in the opening scenes with Sid and John.
  
  
• Factual errors: In one of the early pub scenes, the opening band for the Pistols is supposedly X-ray Spex, belting out one of their best-known hits: "Oh, Bondage, Up Yours!" However, the lead singer Poly Styrene is depicted as rail thin, with long straight hair and no braces on her teeth; most surprisingly, she is portrayed as being white. In real life, Poly (Marion Eliott) is of Anglo-Somali parentage; and in 1977 she was not model thin, plus she had short curly hair and braces. Also during this scene the lyrics "Oh Bondage Up Yours" are being incorrectly sung as "Oh Mondays No More"
  
  
• Anachronisms: When Sid is at a bar in New York, he sees a television showing his ex-bandmate Johnny Rotten/Lydon being interviewed by Tom Snyder on "The Tomorrow Show" (1973). This interview between Lydon and Snyder did not air until June 25, 1980 - nearly 18 months after Sid had died from a heroin overdose.
  
  

• Factual errors: Nancy puts the famous chain and padlock necklace around Sid's neck, as if it was a present from her. In fact, it was not given to him by Nancy, but by Chrissie Hynde, from the band The Pretenders.
  
  
• Continuity: In 1975, when Sid and Johnny are smashing up the Rolls Royce, the can of spray paint alternates between being in Sid's hand and sitting on the hood, next to him, between shots. Also, the windshield gains and looses minor amounts of damage at random.
  
  
• Continuity: Nancy's neck is bare when she is hanging out of the window at the fancy hotel, but is wearing a dog collar in the subsequent scene on the roof.
  
  
• Continuity: In one scene where Sid and Nancy are lying in bed together, one shot shows Sid lying with his arm dangling over the side of the bed. His wrist is bare. In the next shot, his hand is right up next to his face and a studded cuff has appeared.
  
  
• Anachronisms: In 1975, when the Sex Pistols supposedly attacked Rod Stewart's Limousine, the Limo was a Cadillac made between 1980 and 1985.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the police arrest Sid at the beginning of the film,he bites one of the police officers. When the officer replies, his lips do not match the words.
  
  
• Continuity: When we see the annoying singer that was on the Sex Pistols' tour bus getting a drink at the bar, Steve Jones is on the left-hand side in the background. In the next shot, Sid is on the left side and Jones is on the right.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the Sex Pistols are playing live in the boat you can clearly hear a bass guitar, but Sid is in the toilet getting it on with Nancy.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The "My Way" gig differs from the original. For example, in the real version, Sid did not stop singing and he put a small, black revolver out of one pocket of his jacket, whereas in the movie he took a much bigger gun in silver and brown under his left arm. Part of this goof can be explained as artistic license, due to the fact that the original video did not feature Malcolm and Vivienne (portrayed in the movie as Phoebe) getting shot. Many exact details will be changed for artistic and dramatic purposes.
  
  
• Errors in geography: During the taxi ride to the airport, the taxi cab is driving east bound on the San Mateo (California) Bridge. The airport is west. Specifically, the airport is 17 miles south of San Francisco, the San Mateo Bridge is about 5 miles south of SFO airport.
  
  
• Continuity: During the first gig, when Sid hits Dick Dent with the bass guitar, you can clearly see the cable for the amp plugged in, but when he goes on stage to play, he has to plug the cable into the bass guitar. (In reality, the reporter's name was Nick Kent. He wrote for various publications such as the NME. They referred to him in the movie as "Dick Dent" as an insult.)
  
  

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