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The Boat That Rocked

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Release date: November 13, 2009 More »


Director: Richard Curtis

Cast:

  • Michael Hadley as Mr. Roberts
  • Charlie Rowe as James
  • Lucy Fleming as Mrs. Roberts
  • Philip Seymour as The Count
  • Tom Sturridge as Carl
  • Ian Mercer as Transfer Boatman
  • Bill Nighy as Quentin
  • Will Adamsdale as News John
  • Tom Brooke as Thick Kevin
  • Rhys Darby as Angus
  • Nick Frost as Dave
  • Katherine Parkinson as Felicity
  • Chris O'Dowd as Simon
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About:

A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960's.
"The Boat That Rocked" is an ensemble comedy in which the romance takes place between the young people of the '60s and pop music. It's about a band of rogue DJs that captivated Britain, playing the music that defined a generation and standing up to a government that, incomprehensibly, preferred jazz. The Count, a big, brash, American god of the airwaves; Quentin, the boss of Radio Rock -- a pirate radio station in the middle of the North Sea that's populated by an eclectic crew of rock and roll DJs; Gavin, the greatest DJ in Britain who has just returned from his drug tour of America to reclaim his rightful position; Dave, an ironic, intelligent and cruelly funny co-broadcaster; and a fearsome British government official out for blood against the drug takers and lawbreakers of a once-great nation.

Producer: Hilary Bevan Jones, Tim Bevan, Liza Chasin, Richard Curtis, Eric Fellner, Emma Freud, Ronaldo Vasconcellos

Writers: Richard Curtis