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The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 comedy-drama written and directed by Richard Curtis about pirate radio in the United Kingdom during the 1960s. The film has an ensemble cast consisting of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost and Kenneth Branagh. Set in 1966, it tells the story of the fictional pirate radio station "Radio Rock" and its crew of eclectic disc jockeys, who broadcast rock and pop…
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The Boat That Rocked (known as Pirate Radio in the United States) is a 2009 British comedy film directed by Richard Curtis (About Time -2013, and Love Actually -2003). The plot is set in the 1960s, at the height of the musical and social revolution, and revolves around a group of DJ's who broadcast rock music from a boat in international waters, defying British government censorship. Source As for the film's music,…More
Imagine if you were forbidden to listen to some kind of music... Wouldn't that make you angry? Wouldn't you want to do something to react to this absurdity of banning something because some decision-makers don't like it? You might say it's unlikely that such a thing can't happen... source And yet in 1960, even though the youth wanted to hear the new fad across the Atlantic, the rock music that was capturing their he…More