This looks like a fun movie. Set in 1966, The Boat That Rocked is a fictitious film about an offshore radio station, Radio Rock, who must battle the British government and BBC to keep the rock alive. The story takes some real events from the era, but does not represent any particular station. The trailer looks great and the soundtrack is amazing. It’s set for release in United States sometime in November of this year. HD trailer, synopsis, The Boat That Rocked soundtrack listing, cast and images after the jump!
From the official site:
In the late 1960s, American radio stations blasted rock and roll 24 hours a day. But in the home country of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, the only way 25 million people could hear their music was to tune into…a boat.
Celebrated filmmaker Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Love Actually) brings the incredible story of a band of rogue deejays who captivated British radio listeners in the ’60s, playing the music that defined a generation and boldly fefying the government that tried to shut them down – The Boat That Rocked.
Cast:
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as The Count, “a big, brash, American god of the airwaves”
- Bill Nighy as Quentin, the radio station’s boss
- Rhys Ifans as Gavin, Star DJ
- Nick Frost as Dr. Dave, DJ
- Katherine Parkinson as Felicity, the lesbian cook
- Tom Sturridge as Young Carl, Quentin’s godson
- Tom Brooke as ‘Thick’ Kevin, Carl’s cabin-mate
- Chris O’Dowd as Breakfast DJ Simon Stafford
- Rhys Darby as Angus Knutsford, DJ
- Will Adamsdale as newsreader John
- Tom Wisdom as ‘Midnight’ Mark, DJ
- Ralph Brown as Bob ‘the Dawn Treader’, DJ
- Kenneth Branagh as MP Dormandy (a parody of PMG Tony Benn), who aims to shut the station down
- Jack Davenport as Twatt, a civil servant
- Emma Thompson as Charlotte, Carl’s mother
- Talulah Riley as Marianne, Quentin’s niece
- January Jones as Elenore
- Gemma Arterton as Desiree
- Sinead Matthews as Miss C
- Stephen Moore as the Prime Minister. (Harold Wilson was Prime Minister in 1966.)
- Olegar Fedoro as the Rock Boat Captain
The Boat That Rocked Soundtrack:
CD 1
1. “Stay with Me Baby” – Duffy – 3:52
2. “All Day and All of the Night” – The Kinks – 2:23
3. “Elenore” – The Turtles – 2:30
4. “Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)” – John Fred and His Playboy Band – 2:52
5. “Dancing in the Street” – Martha Reeves and the Vandellas – 2:36
6. “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” – The Beach Boys – 2:23
7. “Ooo Baby Baby” – Smokey Robinson – 2:45
8. “This Guy’s in Love with You” – Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – 4:01
9. “Crimson and Clover” – Tommy James & The Shondells – 5:24
10. “Hi Ho Silver Lining” – Jeff Beck – 2:28
11. “I Can See for Miles” – The Who – 4:07
12. “With a Girl Like You” – The Troggs – 2:07
13. “The Letter” – The Box Tops 1:54
14. “I’m Alive” – The Hollies – 2:25
15. “Yesterday Man” – Chris Andrews – 2:32
16. “I’ve Been a Bad Bad Boy” – Paul Jones – 2:20
17. “Silence Is Golden” – The Tremeloes – 3:09
18. “The End of the World” – Skeeter Davis – 2:39
CD 2
1. “Friday on My Mind” – The Easybeats – 2:53
2. “My Generation” – The Who – 3:19
3. “I Feel Free” – Cream – 2:54
4. “The Wind Cries Mary” – Jimi Hendrix – 3:21
5. “A Whiter Shade of Pale” – Procol Harum – 4:00
6. “These Arms of Mine” – Otis Redding – 2:33
7. “Cleo’s Mood” – Jr. Walker & The All Stars – 2:42
8. “The Happening” – The Supremes – 2:50
9. “She’d Rather Be with Me” – The Turtles – 2:21
10. “98.6″ – The Bystanders – 3:19
11. “Sunny Afternoon” – The Kinks – 3:34
12. “Father and Son” – Cat Stevens – 3:42
13. “Nights in White Satin” – The Moody Blues – 4:26
14. “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me” – Dusty Springfield – 2:49
15. “Stay with Me, Baby” – Lorraine Ellison – 3:33
16. “Hang On Sloopy” – The McCoys – 3:52
17. “This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)” – The Isley Brothers – 2:51
18. “Let’s Dance” – David Bowie – 4:06
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