Pirate Radio (2009) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	November 13, 2009
On DVD:	April 13, 2010
Genre:	Comedy
Director:	Richard Curtis
Writer:	Richard Curtis
Cast:	Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Sturridge, Jack Davenport, Ralph Brown, Chris O'Dowd, January Jones
AKA:	Boat That Rocked, The
Studio:	Universal Pictures
Official site:	theboatthatrocked.net
Running Time:	129 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for language, and some sexual content including brief nudity

Inspired by the British pirate radio revolution in the '60s, the majority of the film's shoot will take place in a large rusty metal fishing trawler moored off the coast of England in the very waters that kept the rock of the '60s booming into the U.K.

In 1966 -- arguably British pop music's finest era -- the BBC played only two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio blasted rock and pop...

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While hordes of young girls swarmed in and out of theaters showing Twilight: New Moon last night, I forced my friends to go to the star-studded comedy Pirate Radio, about a group of disc jockeys on a ship off the coast of England who broadcasted "illegal" rock ‘n roll music during the 1960's. In other words, I forced my friends to watch an uninformative, plot-less and pointless movie for $10, which was about $9.50 too much.

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