Pirate Radio-- The Movie

I have been waiting for this movie to come to
town for a long time. It was released in early
November, but it never came to a theater in
Sherman/Denison.
Being a veteran of 28 years in radio and TV,
I wanted to see how Rock & Roll came to England.
During the 1960's the British Broadcasting Company
(BBC) was the only signal you could receive in
England, and the BBC refused to play Rock and
Roll on their signal. Commercial radio was unheard of for
our British cousins. To circumvent this situation
private enterprises took to ships with radio
stations onboard and operated outside the
3 mile territorial limits of England. The ships
beamed their signal to England 24 hours a day,
seven days a week. Each ship had living quarters
for the crew & staff and entertained 'special guests'
(females) on a weekly basis.
This movie stars Phillip Seymore Hoffman and he
is too weak an actor to carry the whole movie. Every
other actor in the movie is truly English and I have
trouble understanding their accent when they speak
in a hurry. There are moments in the movie that are
really funny, but they are infrequent and not valid
enough for me to recommend this movie to you..
Having said that,...the sound track of the movie
is to die for. My foot never stopped patting the entire
movie. The Rolling Stones,..the Who,.. Smokey and
the Miracles,.. Dusty Springfield,..and more. I will
definitely be looking for the soundtrack CD when it
comes out.