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The Boat That Rocked
Directed by
Richard Curtis
R
2009
2h 15m
Comedy
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7.3
59%
71%
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A band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that wanted classical music, and nothing else, on the airwaves.
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Cast of The Boat That Rocked
Tom Sturridge
Carl
Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Count
Rhys Ifans
Gavin
Bill Nighy
Quentin
Emma Thompson
Charlotte
Nick Frost
Dave
Kenneth Branagh
Dormandy
January Jones
Eleonore
Gemma Arterton
Desiree
Jack Davenport
Twatt
Rhys Darby
Angus
Chris O'Dowd
Simon
Katherine Parkinson
Felicity
Katie Lyons
Angus' Boat Girl
Tom Wisdom
Mark
Will Adamsdale
News John
Tom Brooke
Thick Kevin
Ralph Brown
Bob
Ike Hamilton
Harold
Sinead Matthews
Miss C
Talulah Riley
Marianne
Michael Hadley
Mr. Roberts
Charlie Rowe
James
Lucy Fleming
Mrs. Roberts
Ian Mercer
Transfer Boatman
Francesca Longrigg
Mrs. Dormandy
Poppy Delevingne
Model
David Sterne
Marianne's Captain
Olivia Llewellyn
Margaret
William Ilkley
Commanding officer
Michael Thomas
Sandford
Chrissie Wunna
Model (uncredited)
Stephen Moore
Prime Minister
The Boat That Rocked Ratings & Reviews
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Grudgingly irresistible
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
Pirate Radio, the new rock-saturated comedy that proves life really is better when it's set to a '60s soundtrack, is, to borrow from the Stones, "a gas! gas! gas!"
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Boys will be boys and often at top volume in Pirate Radio, Richard Curtis's fanciful fiction about rebel broadcasters.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Pirate Radio is a bit of a mess. But an amiable mess nonetheless, with the boys' casual chemistry and the music carrying things along, it's not that hard to watch and it's great to listen to.
San Jose Mercury News
Charlie McCollum
I started glancing at the time well before the midway mark.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
It's all got a great backbeat and you can dance to it, but there isn't much to Curtis's rebels except some canned anti-authoritarian, sex-drugs-rock 'n' roll rants.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
[A] bright joy-bomb that explodes in every direction with rock classics used in surprisingly direct and literal ways.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
What's not to like? It's Animal House on water, with Branagh playing Dean Wormer.
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The film's original title was The Boat That Rocked. Indeed, these freewheeling, swinging '60s DJs braved their own Titanic to keep on rocking in the free world.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
To paraphrase Keith Reid, Pirate Radio does skip the light fandango; it does do cartwheels across the floor.
CinemaBlend
Perri Nemiroff
No morals, no shame and good music; who wouldn't want to climb aboard Radio Rock?
Film.com
Jonathan F. Richards
Curtis's movie is loosely based on the historical truths of the time, but it isn't meant as a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a docucomedy. It's just a hell of a lot of fun.
At the Movies
Michael Phillips
It just sits there in the water.
At the Movies
A.O. Scott
Any serious music fan -- that is anyone who sees the radio pirates as kindred spirits -- will be outraged by its sloppy approach to the history of rock and roll.
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Richard Curtis's comedy is anchored only in exuberance, but that's more than you can say for most movies these days; it keeps you beaming with pleasure.
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
A hodgepodge of half-baked characters and story ideas, stoked by a frantic climax and a blue-chip playlist of 1966 rock classics.
Movie Retriever
Brian Tallerico
Several films in one without fully developing any of them, Pirate Radio is one of those movies that tries to do too much at once and yet often feels like it's doing nothing at all.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The boat nearly sinks from character overload, and Curtis brakes when you most want him to gun it. But there's no denying the comic energy of the cast.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Despite Curtis' bumbling, Pirate Radio manages to stay afloat bravely enough -- at least until the climax, which comes off as a confused marriage between Top of the Pops and Titanic.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
This might sound like a sentimental recipe, but Richard Curtis, who wrote and directed, keeps the spirit fresh and anarchic.
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