Quadrophenia

Directed by Franc Roddam. Written by Dave Humphries, Franc Roddam, Martin Stellman, and Pete Townshend.

Dialogue

Steph: Going to be one of the faces?

Jimmy: What do you mean going to be? I am one of the faces!

Kev: I don't give a monkey's arsehole about the Mods and Rockers. Underneath, we're all the same, aren't we?

Jimmy: No, Kev, that's it. Look, I don't wanna be the same as everybody else. That's why I'm a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain't ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown.

[on Kev's leather jacket]

Jimmy: 'Ere, I never realized.

Kev: Never realized what?

Jimmy: You's a rocker.

Kev: What, am I black or something?

Jimmy: Well you ain't exactly white in that sort of get up, are you?

[Sneaking in late at night, Jimmy finds his mother and father on the couch in front of the TV. Mother is unhappily watching a program while father is passed out next to her.]

Mrs. Cooper (Jimmy's mother): Where you been?

Jimmy: Fell asleep on the train. I wound up in bloody Neasden.

Mrs. Cooper (Jimmy's mother): Ridin' about on them motorbikes all night, I'm not surprised. It's not normal.

Jimmy: Oh, yeah? What's normal, then?

Kev: That's why I joined the army, to be different. But it don't matter where you go, there's always some cunt with stars and stripes wants to tell you what to do.

[Jimmy notices Ace Face working as a bellboy in a hotel.]

Jimmy: Bellboy! BELLBOY!

[Jimmy shouts from the cliff top after deciding not to be a mod.]

Jimmy: Me!

Taglines

• Hell On Wheels!
• The Year Was 1964, and The Battle Was Just Beginning!
• A Way Of Life [rerelease]
• We are the mods, we are the mods. We are, we are, we are the mods.

Cast

• Phil Daniels - James Michael "Jimmy" Cooper
• Toyah Wilcox - Monkey
• Mark Wingett - Dave
• John Altman - John (uncredited)
• Leslie Ash - Steph
• Ray Winstone - Kevin
• Sting - Ace Face