The Boat That Rocked

Name: The Boat That Rocked
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 2009-04-01
Duration: 2 h 15 min
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson

On air. Off shore. Out of control.

The Boat That Rocked (2009)

Timing: 2:15 (135 min)

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Watch film The Boat That Rocked | "Pirate Radio" - Official Trailer [HD]

Release date

2009-04-01

Country

United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States

Production

Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Working Title Films, Medienproduktion Prometheus Filmgesellschaft, Portobello Studios, Tightrope Pictures, Portobello Productions, Working Title Films

Genre

Drama, Comedy

Budget

$35 000 000

Revenue

$36 348 784

Website

https://www.focusfeatures.com/pirate_radio

Director

Richard Curtis

Actors

Tom Sturridge, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rhys Ifans, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Gemma Arterton, Jack Davenport
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Richard Curtis

Producer

Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Ronaldo Vasconcellos, Hilary Bevan Jones, Emma Freud, Richard Curtis, Debra Hayward, Liza Chasin

Operator

Danny Cohen

Composer

Hans Zimmer

Artist

Ben Collins

Audition

Fiona Weir

Editing

Emma E. Hickox
All team (35)

Short description

An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".

What's left behind the scenes

There is a scene in the film where one of the characters plays a musical composition dated 1969, despite the fact that the film's action takes place in 1966.
In the film "Radio Rock," the station broadcast on medium wave at 203 m, but the Russian translation repeatedly states the frequency 103.4 FM (the frequency of Moscow's Radio "Mayak," whose DJs voiced the main characters).
The song "Let's Dance," featured in the film, was written in 1983, although the action takes place in the 1960s. The film also uses a cover version of the song "Stay with Me" recorded in 2009, alongside the original version from 1966.
A significant amount of equipment shown on the ship was borrowed from Radio Caroline (a pirate British radio station founded in 1964 to broadcast popular music and avoid paying royalties to record companies). The film depicts equipment manufactured in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but Radio Caroline didn't start using it until the 1980s.
The ship Radio Caroline served as the prototype for the radio station "Radio Rock," and was equipped with a 10-kilowatt radio transmitter. The ship also sank.
The song 'Let's Dance', featured in the film, was written in 1983, although the action takes place in the 1960s. The film also uses a cover version of the song 'Stay with Me' recorded in 2009, alongside the original version from 1966.

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