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SUMMARY:Pirate Radio - DVD
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DESCRIPTION:In mid- to late-'60s Britain\, an unusual yet colorful subcultu
 re sprang up and thrived as a product of the upswing in British pop music\,
  only to meet its doom within a few short years. Though the BBC functioned 
 as the country's main source of news and music\, its programmers offered ve
 ry little airtime to rock & roll -- which left an overwhelming need unfulfi
 lled. In response\, small bands of "pirate" radio enthusiasts set up broadc
 asting towers on boats just outside of English boundary waters\, and transm
 itted signals to an estimated 25 million listeners\, 24 hours a day and sev
 en days per week. Unsurprisingly\, the DJs who took charge of these broadca
 sts could rival just about anyone in terms of flamboyance and outsized pers
 onalities. With Pirate Radio (released as The Boat That Rocked in the U.K.)
 \, writer-director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) travels back to the Swing
 ing Sixties and takes a headfirst plunge into this colorful realm.  The sto
 ry opens in 1966\, aboard a rusty fishing trawler christened Radio Rock and
  equipped with pirate broadcasting equipment. Here\, the slightly daft elit
 ist Quentin (Bill Nighy) presides over a motley crew of joint-toking\, sex-
 hungry disc jockeys including Dave (Nick Frost)\, a heavyset boob who never
 theless considers himself a hot property with women and loves to chase skir
 ts\; "The Count" (Philip Seymour Hoffman)\, an American DJ who aspires to b
 e the first person to drop an F-bomb over the British airwaves\; the gloom-
 laden Irishman Simon (Chris O'Dowd)\; bonked-out hipster Thick Kevin (Tom B
 rooke)\; womanizer Mark (Tom Wisdom)\; Angus (Rhys Darby)\, a New Zealander
  whom nobody likes\; and the only female member of the group\, lesbian cook
  Felicity (Katherine Parkinson). These misfits pull off quite a show -- eno
 ugh of one that they attain the status of national idols for the youth cult
 ure -- but the super-conservative government minister Dormandy (Kenneth Bra
 nagh) detests the whole business and will do almost anything in his power t
 o shut them down. ~ Nathan Southern\, Rovi
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