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- Synopsis
- 'Pirate Radio' is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs love affair with Rock n Roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rogue DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the ......
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- Starring
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh
- Director(s)
- Richard Curtis
- Distributor(s)
- Focus Features
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 134 min.
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Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Richard Curtis is good at handling large casts, establishing all the characters and keeping them alive.Read the full review
USA Today | Claudia PuigAdd Critic to Favorites
Classic rock enthusiasts will want to stick around through the end credit sequence, which features an array of album covers.Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites
If you want to know years in advance what old-age nostalgia is going to look like for Baby Boomers, look no further than Pirate Radio, in which the sun always shines, the music is great and the sex is available, guilt-free and glorious.Read the full review
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Review: Pirate Radio
11/13/09 Writer/director Curtis rose to fame on the basis of his screenplay for Four Weddings and a Funeral , featuring an ensemble of quirky yet appealing men and women chasing love and happiness, followed, notably, by his script for Notting Hill , but he's been writing off-kilter comedy sketches and episodic television for many years. | Cinematical.com -
Capone chats with PIRATE RADIO's corrupted youth Tom Sturridge!!!
11/13/09 Tom Sturridge is probably a name most of you are not familiar with. | Ain't It Cool News -
Big opening expected for '2012'
11/12/09 Sony expects to dominate the worldwide box office this weekend as Roland Emmerich's latest disaster spectacle "2012" opens across all territories, looking to match the mammoth foreign success of the helmer's "The Day After Tomorrow." | Variety -
Capone rocks out with PIRATE RADIO/THE BOAT THAT ROCKED director Richard Curtis!!!
11/11/09 I can't think of a project that Richard Curtis has been involved in that I haven't loved to some degree. | Ain't It Cool News -
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09/29/09 Yesterday, we returned to our annual fall film preview by reminding readers about the Oscar-O-Meter™, a handy prognosticating formula that measures Academy interest in upcoming films on a scale of 1 to 10. | The A.V. Club -
Richard Curtis to pen episode of Doctor Who
09/08/09 The new series of Doctor Who comes closer and closer, and the list of involved talent is really starting to build up. | TV Squad -
Five Favourite Films with Richard Curtis
09/07/09 "What I've decided is to choose recent films," he explains to RT. "I do think that often people get stuck in always saying the five greatest films of all time, films they saw between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two, because that's when you're forming your opinions. I think I'll talk about modern films, which aren't necessarily the greatest films ever made, but are five great films." | Rotten Tomatoes -
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RT on DVD: Invite Let the Right One In
08/13/09 Tomas Alfredson's Let the Right One In, a chilling and beautiful vampire movie turned coming-of-age tale; and one of the most moving love stories in recent memory. | Rotten Tomatoes