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2009 Certificate 15
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Writer-turned-director Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY, NOTTING HILL) directs a cast comprising the cream of British acting talent - which includes Bill Nighy (NOTES ON A SCANDAL, LOVE ACTUALLY), Rhys Ifans (NOTTING HILL, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS), Nick Frost (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) and Kenneth Branagh (HENRY V, .. Read more

Starring Rhys Ifans, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy
Director Richard Curtis
Genres Audio Descriptive, Comedy

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The Boat That Rocked

Writer-turned-director Richard Curtis (LOVE ACTUALLY, NOTTING HILL) directs a cast comprising the cream of British acting talent - which includes Bill Nighy (NOTES ON A SCANDAL, LOVE ACTUALLY), Rhys Ifans (NOTTING HILL, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDLANDS), Nick Frost (SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ) and Kenneth Branagh (HENRY V, CELEBRITY), along with one lone American star in the shape of Philip Seymour Hoffman (CAPOTE, DOUBT) - in this comedy set in Britain in 1966. With the BBC only allowing two hours of rock and roll to be played on its airwaves per week, a pirate radio station aboard a North Sea-cruising yacht broadcasts music to the pop-starved masses, turning its seafaring disc jockeys into overnight superstars.

Taking the infamous Radio Caroline as inspiration, THE BOAT THAT ROCKED is an hilarious feel-good romp in the tradition of Curtis' best-loved work and benefits from a knockout soundtrack featuring some of the most memorable tracks of the time.

Starring Rhys Ifans, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, January Jones, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Davenport, Tom Sturridge, Rhys Darby, Chris O'Dowd, Ralph Brown
Director Richard Curtis
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 2 hrs 9 mins
Blu-ray: 2 hrs 14 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Collections 100 Most Wanted, UK top 50 weekly chart
Genres Audio Descriptive, Comedy
Language DVD: English, English Audio Description
Blu-ray: English
Subtitles Blu-ray: Dutch, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, German, English, Swedish
Released DVD: 07 Sep 2009
Blu-ray: 07 Sep 2009
Production year: 2009
Format DVD

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    The Ship That Sank would be a more appropriate title for writer-director Richard Curtiss latest and most... read more on Time Out

    • Wally Hammond, 
    • Time Out
    • Posted 01 Apr 2009

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  • 119 out of 119 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Captures The Essence Of The Era Perfectly

    Absolutely loved this film from beginning to end. It captures the essence of that era perfectly, and it is a film I could watch again and again. My biggest surprise came from Rhys Ifans who portrayed the sex god DJ Gavin fantastically. What a sexy voice for the radio - shame I can't mention one DJ on air at the moment who sounds the same...!

    Unfortunately, I myself, was born in 1979, so wasn't around in that decade. However I took my mum to see this film as she was 21yrs old in 1966, and remembers listening to the pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea, and remembers all the political controversy surrounding it. She thought it was a great film too.

    If you appreciate the best music of all time, proper rock n roll from the 60's/70's, then you will love this film. Its a real feel good movie.

      • Katrina from Stockport
      • Posted 04 Apr 2009 18:42

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  • 10 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Not worth the price of a cinema ticket

    Great cast - shame about everything else. The film is a dull, directionless, drift in product of middle-aged dream of miraculous time 'when we were young and the women were easy / knew their place'. Richard Curtis seems to have totally lost his touch - can't imagine how this ever got past the test audiences.

      • A customer from Ninfield
      • Posted 27 Apr 2009 22:49

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