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Rock the Kasbah
Directed by
Barry Levinson
R
2015
1h 46m
Comedy
,
War
,
and more
5.5
7%
29%
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A down-on-his-luck music manager discovers a teenage girl with an extraordinary voice while on a music tour in Afghanistan and takes her to Kabul to compete on the popular television show, Afghan Star.
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Cast of Rock the Kasbah
Bill Murray
Richie Lanz
Zooey Deschanel
Ronnie
Bruce Willis
Bombay Brian
Kate Hudson
Merci
Taylor Kinney
Private Barnes
Danny McBride
Nick
Scott Caan
Jake
Eugenia Kuzmina
Gulla
Sarah Baker
Maureen
Leem Lubany
Salima
Avery Phillips
Dree
Megan Raich
Brittany
Jonas Khan
Nizar Khan
Arian Moayed
Riza
Fahim Fazli
Tariq Khan
Sameer Ali Khan
Azam Ghol
Beejan Land
Daoud
Husam Chadat
Nasim
Kelly Lynch
Sylvia
Glenn Fleshler
Army Warrant Officer
Fatim Zahra El Hassani
10-year-old Afghan Girl
Hassan Bouayad
U.S. Army Soldier #1
Sebastien Collineau
U.S. Army Soldier #2
Hamdane Mohamed Habib
Afghan Police Man
Azeddine Benamara
Walrus Mustached Mercenary
Mohamed Boussalem
Militia #1
Mansour Badri
Militia #1
Kamel Kenzo
Muscle Car Driver Shir
Yassir Semlali
Boy #1
Mehdi Kachaoui
Boy #2
Oussama Kadir
Boy #3
Touami Noureddine
Afghan Star Guard
Mouhcine Malzi
Afghan Star Technician
Nour El Idrissi
Contestant #1
Moutamassik Mohamed
Ice Cream Shop Man
Hamid Najah
Mandayi Market Merchant
Mustapha Makhada
Azam's Driver Jawad
Abdellatif Chaouqi
Pashtun Rider
Souad Belamlih
Salima's Mother
Benjamin Hicquel
Mercenary (uncredited)
Barry Levinson
Director
Mitch Glazer
Writer / Producer
Steve Bing
Producer
Bill Block
Producer
Jacob Pechenik
Producer
Ethan Smith
Producer
Rock the Kasbah Ratings & Reviews
The Playlist
Nick Schager
The film's disregard for basic plot lucidity either stems from contempt for its audience, or from post-production decisions aimed at making something, anything, out of nothing
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
As one-liner after one-liner misses its mark, you begin to feel sorry for Murray, who's really too old to be playing a guy who has a little daughter ... and likes to get kinky with Kate Hudson as a raucous, Dolly Parton-style hooker-businesswoman.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
An acclaimed film director, a legendary comic actor, lots of fun rock and pop songs, and a noble story at its core can't save "Rock the Kasbah" from being one hugely misguided dud.
San Diego Reader
Matthew Lickona
The first half is pure pleasure as Murray gets thoroughly immersed and enmeshed in Kabul crazy.
USA Today
Brian Truitt
A lot of the actor's usual mercurial charm isn't used to full effect and is actually tempered when it doesn't feel like it should be.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Clichd, enervating, insulting - it's tough to settle on a single pejorative for "Rock the Kasbah," though abysmal might do.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Some projects are just too misguided for the star to mug and shrug his way out of. Consider Rock the Kasbah at the top, or the bottom, of that list.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
An ongoing war is no setting for a musical comedy, especially one this glib and inane.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Rock the Kasbah's timing is so slack, and its screenplay so shapeless, that the movie doesn't even rise to the level of an Afghan-war Stripes. It's almost as laugh-free as the latest news from Kunduz.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
Rock the Kasbah, does not rock at all - not even a little bit.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
If it were any worse, they'd be screening it as evidence at The Hague.
Entertainment Weekly
Leah Greenblatt
Your enjoyment of all this will probably depend heavily on your willingness to let the words romp and Taliban coexist for approximately two hours.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
"Rock the Kasbah" is the mausoleum where comedy was buried.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Natalie Daher
It fumbles a bit by prioritizing the goofy antics of its white cast over what turns out to be a smart depiction of non-Western life.
Arizona Republic
Randy Cordova
There might be a decent movie in here somewhere, if the focus had been on the right character.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
This dismal comedy, scripted by Murray's old pal Mitch Glazer (Scrooged), evinces only enough interest in Afghanis to keep the story rolling.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
This movie is all over the place.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Rock the Kasbah goes fierce to quietly touching and back to funny again.
Film Comment Magazine
Michael Sragow
As the narrative weaves together heroism, anti-heroism, and casual villainies, Levinson build his movie the way Richie builds his business-on the power of relationships.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Murray completists -- I count myself among them -- will flock to it, but will probably come away disappointed at how not-weird this oddball film actually is.
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