The Smiths: The Complete Picture

The Smiths: The Complete Picture was released on December 8, 1992.

The Smiths: The Complete Picture was directed by Derek Jarman, Tim Broad, Paula Grief.

The Smiths: The Complete Picture has a runtime of 50m.

Thirteen Smiths' recordings, half of them in a club with a live audience. These alternate with five rock videos, two directed by Derek Jarman (Panic and Ask), two by Tim Broad (Girlfriend in a Coma and Stop Me...), and one by Paula Grief and Richard Levine (How Soon Is Now?). It concludes with Jarman's short film, "The Queen Is Dead," with a three-song soundtrack. The rock videos, particularly Jarman's, are filled with multiple and superimposed images, changing tints, and little narrative coherence; they get their pace from the music's rhythm. Androgyny, dancing children, belching smokestacks, graffiti, angry young men, a waif in a cap: collages of modern alienation.

The key characters in The Smiths: The Complete Picture are himself (Morrissey), himself (Johnny Marr), himself (Andy Rourke).

The Smiths: The Complete Picture is rated PG.

The Smiths: The Complete Picture is a Music, Musical film.

The Smiths: The Complete Picture has an audience rating of 7.9 out of 10.