Morrissey has given his seal of approval to a new film based around the music of The Smiths.Shoplifters of the World is focused on a bunch of friends who are huge fans of the Manchester group – though when the band break up in 1987, one of the characters holds up a radio station and demands they play Smiths songs.The film’s trailer went viral last month in the wake of the film’s US release, with many of the group’s fans reacting in horror.“Someone appears to have thought taking the plot of the Alan Partridge film and setting it the music of The Smiths is a good idea,” one joked at the time, while another asked: “What the everliving fuck is this[?]”.But despite the lukewarm reaction, it has attracted the praise of the man who penned the.
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