The film opens with Sid Vicious (Gary Oldman) being dragged out of a New York hotel by the police following the death of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen (Chloe Webb). Flash back a few months in 1978, Spungen - a groupie - has come to London from America - with the specific intention of bedding The Sex Pistols. Vicious is not interested in her initially but when she deals him heroin, they fall deeply in love and begin a tortuous, self destructive love affair centred round heroin. The Pistols break up and Vicious starts a solo career, managed by Nancy but he is dismissed as a joke and a has been. He and Nancy are both heavily addicted to heroin and Nancy falls into a deep depression. One night they have a disastrous argument and Nancy begs Sid to kill her. In a drug induced haze Vicious stabs Nancy (un)intentionally? She bleeds to death in a protracted fashion. Vicious is given bail but ultimately overdoses on heroin. A film about co dependency and folie a deux, Sid and Nancy paints such an ugly picture of heroin dependence, it is unlikely that you will be rushing round to your local dealer after watching it. Everything is dirty and seedy in the movie but one thing I have noticed is that Gary Oldman's Sid Vicious is not a likeable character, and neither is Chloe Webb's Nancy Spungen. This is okay, characters do not need to be sympathetic for a good movie. But I just thought that with Sid and Nancy, they weren't particularly engaging in the film so you don't burst into tears or have a strong reaction to the end of the movie where Nancy is stabbed or you learn Sid died from an overdose. It is a good film, worthy of praise and it will definitely put you off drugs, but it won't affect you emotionally. A much better example of a co dependent movie relationship is in Dogs In Space - an Australian movie featuring Michael Hutchence as a punk singer who gradually gets his girlfriend into the smack scene. Better characterisation in Dogs in Space make it a much more emotionally involving effort than Sid and Nancy.