The Boat That Rocked

The Boat That Rocked is a 2009 ensemble comedy film, released in the United Kingdom on 1 April 2009. After the film's commercial and critical failure in the UK, it was re-edited and retitled Pirate Radio for release in the United States and Canada on 13 November 2009 - but was still commercially unsuccessful in its new guise.Set in 1966, it tells the story of a fictitious pirate radio station broadcasting to the United Kingdom from a ship moored in the North Sea. The film was written and directed by Richard Curtis and made by Working Title Films for Universal Pictures. Writer/director Richard Curtis is sailing The Boat That Rocked back into the editing room ahead of its U.S. release after the comedy failed to make waves at the British box office.The Boat That Rocked cost more than £30 million to make but took in just £6.1 million in the U.K. in its first 12 weeks of release, with film critics complaining the film was too long.