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The Boat That Rocked (titled Pirate Radio in North America) is a 2009 comedy drama film 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.
Nov 13, 2009 · Partly based on real events, the movie deals with the struggles faced by rock and pop music to emerge in England in the early '60s, when the BBC only played one hour of that music per day. The solution: pirate radio stations, situated in the North Sea, playing rock music 24/7.
Nov 11, 2009 · From pirate radio stations anchored offshore, a steady stream of rock was broadcast from powerful transmitters to the mainland, where at a given moment, more than half of the radios may have been tuned in.
Nov 13, 2009 · In 1966, BBC radio broadcasts less than an hour of pop music a day, forcing pirate DJs to take up the slack from boats anchored outside British waters.
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A boat approaches the Pirate Radio ship and drops off Young Carl (Tom Sturridge), a young man who has been expelled from school for smoking marijuana. He has been sent to spend time with his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy), who owns the ship, allegedly to straighten him out.
From the creator of Love Actually and Notting Hill comes a trip back to the freewheeling, free-loving '60s when the rock music that inspired a generation was censored by the government. 2,770 IMDb 7.3 1 h 57 min 2009. X-Ray R. Comedy · Drama · Compelling · Emotional. Available to rent or buy.
This film really captures the freedom spirit of the 60's.Coming to theaters on November 13, 2009.Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Ni...
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Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the...
Apr 1, 2009 · "Pirate Radio" is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rouge DJs, on a boat in...
