PIRATE RADIO stars Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, and relative newcomer Tom Sturridge (who I also interviewed on the same day I did Curtis; I'll have that for you soon), most of whom play DJs on a floating radio station off the coast of England in the 1960s, playing music that the BBC wouldn't allow, namely pop and rock. The film does...
RichardCurtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He's a British Judd Apatow - indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value.
... to listen. That's the musical history at the center of Pirate Radio , the new ensemble comedy from RichardCurtis that features an illustrious cast including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Nick Frost, Rhys Darby ("Flight of the Conchords") and Rhys Ifans and others playing DJs on just such a ship. The story is told...
While pirate radio really existed as a means to get around the government's edict, the wild and crazy disc jockeys in the movie are all figments of Curtis' imagination. The creative mind that came up with wedding guests who click in "Four Weddings and a Funeral"; a bookstore owner and movie star who, unlikely as it may seem, fall in love in "Notting Hill"; and the "Tall Guy" character for the...
RichardCurtis makes romantic, sentimental and overlong comedies filled to the rafters with friends as cast-members. He’s a British Judd Apatow–indulgent, substituting sweetness for edge, charm for shock value. His latest, Pirate Radio, is as jolly, jaunty and sappy as...
Seven months after its theatrical release in the UK, and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore with most of its better bits excised. Writer-director RichardCurtis, paying homage to the renegade '60s DJs spinning rock 'n' roll from ships anchored in the North S...
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In 1966, arguably British pop music's finest era, the BBC played only two hours of rock n' roll every week but pirate radio blasted rock and pop from the high seas twenty-four hours a day and twenty-five million people, more than half the population of Britain, listened to these broadcasts every single day. , opening in theaters everywhere on November 13th, is the latest film from RichardCurtis,...
... Jack Sparrow, doesn't mean much in this nostalgic, episodic ensemble comedy from writer-director RichardCurtis (Love Actually): For all the supposed anarchy aboard the creaky vessel that broadcasts the fictional Radio Rock, there's something very old-school frat-house about the shipmates — U.K. blokes all of them, except for Philip Seymour Hoffman as the chunky, furry American deejay...
Seven months after its theatrical release in the U.K., and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S. theaters with a different title (it was formerly known as The Boat That Rocked ) and most of its better bits excised. Writer-director RichardCurtis, pa...
The Boat that Rocked - Synopsis : Watch online Movie Trailer free Pirate Radio Hollywood film.The film Directed by RichardCurtis. In Britain 1966 recently expelled student, Carl has been sent by his mother to find some direction in life by visiting his godfather, Quentin. However, Quentin is the boss of Radio Rock, a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, populated by an...
