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Nov 13, 2009 · Nov 13, 200910:22 AM. The film Pirate Radio , which opens in the U.S. on Friday, has a raucous premise: enterprising disc jockeys commission a leaky sea vessel to start a pirate radio...
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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 music to the United Kingdom from a ship anchored in the North Sea while the British government tries to shut them down.
If you've been binge-watching movies lately, you may have come across "Pirate Radio."Director Richard Curtis' 2009 comedy-drama stars the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, a disc jockey for an unlicensed rock radio station that broadcast from a rusty, decrepit ship off the British coast in the mid-1960s, defying government authorities to spin the rock records that weren't allowed on ...
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Nov 10, 2009 · Pirate Radio: True History Stranger than Hollywood Fiction. 10-Nov-2009 10:00 AM EST , by University of Indianapolis. favorite_border. Newswise — A new film opening Friday is inspired by the ...
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Nov 12, 2009 · Email. The latest film from British writer-director Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, Love Actually) is a true-story-inspired comedy about the bawdy crew of an oceangoing rock-music radio...
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Nov 11, 2009 · Caroline is the inspiration for Radio Rock, the floating transmitter in "Pirate Radio." Richard Curtis, who wrote and directed the film, was 10 years old in Radio Caroline's heyday, but he must know people who worked onboard, because the film has a real feel for the shipboard combination of excitement and desperation. Think about it.
Nov 13, 2009 · MOVIE REVIEW : The ‘Pirate Radio’ boat is a rockin’; do come a knockin’ : The plot might lose the rhythm sometimes, but the soundtrack and cast keep the ‘60s-set rock fable afloat.
