Release Date
October 23, 2015
DVD Release Date
February 2, 2016 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Barry Levinson
Writer
Mitch Glazer
Cast
Bill Murray, Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride, Scott Caan, Leem Lubany, Arian Moayed, Bruce Willis
Studio
Running Time
100 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for language including sexual references, some drug use and brief violence
A has-been rock manager from Van Nuys, California stumbles upon a once-in-a-lifetime voice in a remote Afghan cave in Rock the Kasbah, a dramatic comedy inspired by stranger-than-fiction, real-life events and directed by Oscar winner Barry Levinson. Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), dumped and stranded in war-torn Kabul by his last remaining client (Zooey Deschanel), discovers Salima Khan (Leem Lubany), a Pashtun teenager with a beautiful voice and the courageous dream of becoming the first woman... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
Bill Murray refused to star in a new Ghostbusters, but he did agree to star as a washed-up music manager who ends up stranded in Afghanistan, agrees to help some shady American contractors transport weapons to a small village, finds an extremely attractive singer in a cave and then risks her life to put her in the spotlight in the rocky comedy Rock the Kasbah.
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