Pirate Radio

Rating: 6

Genre: Mature Audience, Comedy

Time: 2:14

Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, January Jones


This movie is woven around a group of zany characters who live on an old ship broadcasting rock music from offshore Great Britain back to the island. Their audience is huge, much to the displeasure of British bureaucracy, which is constantly devising plots to shutdown the “pirate” radioman. But they manage to keep things rockin’ and rollin’ until the Titanic-like end. However, don’t despair. Their fans come to the rescue. The movie is set in 1966. It has some good humor in it, but was a bit disappointing and too long. Fans of “Mad Men” should be informed that January Jones makes what might be her first appearance on the Wide screen.