The Boat That Rocked : retitled Pirate Radio for US release 2009 .This is the story of a Fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting rock and roll from a boat located of the Island of Britain in the year 1966. The story is told through the eyes of a young Carl (Tom Sturridge) who is sent to live with his godfather Quentin (Bill Nighy) the ship's captain after being expelled from school . Radio Rock is the name of the station and as the BBC is playing only 2 houbawdy Dave (Nick Frost)rs a day of rock and roll this station plays it 24 hours a day. Radio Rock is a smashing success and this leads to the government cracking down on them with new rules, as the oblivious crew of DJs sit offshore and rock the county out.

The stations D.j.s include The Count (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Smooth Bob (Ralph Brown), Angus (Rhys Darby), Simon (Chris O'Dowd), the mysterious Midnight Mark (Tom Wisdom) ,and the "king of the airwaves", Gavin (Rhys Ifans).

. The screener I saw was to long and I read that it is being re-cut to be less than the over two hours version I watched . The characters in this film are fun and this film does not take itself to seriously it just a film about early rock and roll. Philip Seymour Hoffman's character The Count never really emerges as he is over shadowed by Gavin (Rhys Ifans) as he enters the story. The whole feel of this film is very well done and the late sixties fashions are wild and really add to the flavor. Now the music yes, the music a film about a radio station has lots of music and the selection for this film are great. We get to hear the best of the best and it really make the film flow, I think the long running time has caused by the director Richard Curtis not wanting to cut out songs, not scenes. This film is just what I needed to watch after being bombarded with robots and shaky camera scenes, it a classic movie with a classic fell and has a COOL story with a not to complicated plot.

Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tom Sturridge, Bill Nighy, Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Talulah Riley, Chris O'Dowd, Rhys Darby, Kenneth Branagh, January Jones, Jack Davenport, Emma Thompson, GemmaArterton, Olegar Fedoro, Katherine Parkinson
Directed by Richard Curtis
Produced by Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Hilary Bevan Jones,
Written by Richard Curtis
Cinematography Danny Cohen
Studio StudioCanal, Working Title Films