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Channel 4

1 x 90 minutes
Theatrically released 4 January 2002
A Century Films production in association with IE Music for Channel 4

Cinematography
Simon Niblett and Michael Timney
Editor
Stuart Briggs
Sound
Andrew Boag, George Foulghan
and Ian Maclagan
Executive producers
Tim Clark, David Enthoven
and Gabby Chelmicka
Producer
Caroline Levy
Second unit director
Katie Bailiff
Director
Brian Hill

 

 

Nobody Someday (2002)

A popstar disenchanted with popstardom, Robbie Williams wonders if he should continue his career. He hates the gossip, hates the attention, hates fame. He even hates his songs.

Nothing was off-limits to Brian Hill in the making of this documentary. With access to the hotel rooms, backstage areas, entourage meetings and private life of a disarmingly frank popstar, we go in search of the real Robbie on a gruelling five-week European concert tour. Robbie’s kicked his drug and booze habit for the umpteenth time and is determined to stick it out. But the pressure of performing and life on the road doesn’t make it easy.

Williams is refreshingly honest and sensible yet is as fickle as the British weather. No sooner has the tour begun, than he’s back on top of the world. "I'm standing on stage thinking 'I'm ace!' and at the same time 30,000 people scream 'I agree!' What could be better than that?"

 

“We can’t knock it. Robbie Williams entertains us like no other in his big screen debut.”
B Magazine (Film of the Month).

“Abrasive and astoundingly candid … a fascinating look inside the music business.” Sydney Morning Herald.

“Comes across like a real-life Spinal Tap for the post-Smash Hits generation.”
Barbara Ellen, The Times.

“There are plenty of laughs, most courtesy of Williams himself. Throughout, he’s sincere enough not to be irritating and amusing enough not to lose our sympathy. Hill, meanwhile, never sidesteps, shirks or sanitises, simply showing us a pop icon at both his best and his worst. Watch it, and be reminded just how bizarre celebrity can be.”
Dan Jolin, Total Film.