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The Boat That Rocked

Cast

Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy View All


Crew

Richard Curtis (Director), Richard Curtis (Writer) View All

Release: Apr. 1st, 2009
Runtime: 1 hour, 56 minutes
The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate...
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I feel slightly bad for not liking this film, considering that it is essentially a good-humoured and affectionate British comedy about pirate radio stations in the 1960s, but I’m afraid the best that can be said for it is that it is intermittently amusing..


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