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The Boat That Rocked
2009
· Movie
· 135 min
B
MEANRANK
74/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1532
- IMDb #1493
- Rotten Tomatoes #2786
- Metacritic #2552
- Letterboxd #1663
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3357
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2465
- Metacritic Critics #2651
- Metacritic Audience #2370
- Douban #301
- Kinopoisk #432
- AlloCiné #204
- Trakt #1327
Every rating
58–92
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 58, highest is Google on 92. Critics average 58, everyone else 78.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In 1966, a group of rogue DJs broadcast rock and pop music from a ship in the North Sea to the United Kingdom, where the BBC played very little of it. The film follows the lives of the crew and their millions of listeners, celebrating the pirate radio station's rebellion against the staid establishment, which seeks to shut them down.
Details
- Director
- Richard Curtis
- Writer
- Richard Curtis
- Released
- 1 April 2009
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States, France, Germany
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $36.3M
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