The Boat That Rocked

Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, January Jones, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost.
Running time: 135 mins
Genre: Comedy
Director Richard Curtis

The Boat That Rocked is a comedy set in Britain in 1966, an era when the BBC, the only UK mainland licensed radio broadcaster, played little more than two hours of any kind of recorded music each week. A pirate station called Radio Rock began broadcasting rock music twenty-four hours a day from a boat anchored off the coast of England in international waters. Hosted by a colourful band of disc-jockeys, it soon gains an audience of millions and angers the government in the process. This movie was quite funny and quirky. The one thing I really enjoyed about this movie was the soundtrack, it had all the songs from 1960’s. I found that the movie was basically about sex, drugs and rock n' roll. Well that’s what did happen in the sixties. The newcomer, Carl gets to know the irrepressible members on the boat. Were it not for the strength of some of the core cast, it would have been very easy for the film to completely lose its way as the narrative begins to lose shape and the sub-plots confuse us all. Although I liked this movie some scenes the script could have been written better.


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