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Control

Movie (2007)

Control is the biography of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis, taking his story from schoolboy days of 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

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Released:	May 17th, 2007
Budget:	N/A
Revenue:	$8,159,508.00

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Sam Riley (II)
plays Ian Curtis

Samantha Morton
plays Debbie Curtis

Alexandra Maria Lara
plays Annik Honore

Joe Anderson
plays Hooky

James Anthony Pear…
plays Bernard Sumner

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Movie Goof (anachronisms): When Ian is recording the vocals for "Isolation," he appears to be using a modern Shure KSM27 studio condenser microphone.
Sam Riley (II) (who plays Ian Curtis) and Alexandra Maria Lara (who played his lover Annik Honore) married in August 2008 and now live in Berlin
The scene showing Tony Wilson talking to Ian Curtis in the empty Derby Hall in Bury after the April 1980 riot features a large equipment case on which the number "501" prominently appears. When Tony Wilson was buried in August, 2007, his coffin was marked with the number 501, the last number in the Factory Records catalog.
According to Samantha Morton, the director mortgaged his house to raise finance for the film.

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