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A 2009 movie by Richard Curtis (the writer of ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]'', ''[[Notting Hill]]'', ''[[Blackadder]]'' and writer/director of ''[[Love Actually]]'') concerning the adventures of Carl, an English 18-year-old in 1966 who's just been kicked out of school, who is sent by his mother to live with his godfather Quentin, whose ship, the Radio Rock, functions as a [[Buccaneer Broadcaster|pirate radio]] station. Hijinks ensue, as Carl befriends the various DJs onboard and experiences sex, drugs, and rock and roll. However, the eeeeeeeevil Minister Dormandy and his assistant, the appropriately named [[Unfortunate Names|Twatt]], want to shut down the Radio Rock as well as all the other pirate radio stations.
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* [[America Saves the Day|America Saves Pop Music]] One of the trailers for the American release states that The Count (the only American DJ) founded Radio Rock and saved rock and roll from the eeevil British.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Yeah, he's married, but some of the things Dormandy says makes you think.
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* [[Bed Trick]]: Averted in that it goes horribly, horribly wrong.
* [[Buccaneer Broadcaster]]: Radio Rock.
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* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Dormandy enjoys being in the government because if he doesn't like something, he can work to make it illegal.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Just about every character utters one during Gavin and the Count's game of chicken. The best one, however, comes later in the film as {{spoiler|the boat is sinking}}.
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''Cue water flooding the corridor'' }}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]: [[Emma Thompson]] as Carl's [[Hot Mom]] (whose shagability virtually everyone comments on).
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** Only a partial aversion, as from the height they jumped they probably would have been very seriously injured or even killed in [[Real Life]].
* [[Stiff Upper Lip]] : Doubles as [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. (This entire conversation is deadpan and completely nonchalant.)
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"Good news."
"Okay, the good news is the engine has exploded and we're all going to die."
"Hello, hey, er Doctor Dave here, Radio Rock, how...how's that good news?
"I haven't yet told you ''how'' we're going to die, that's the bad news."
"How are we going to die?"
"We're going to drown in the freezing waters of the North Sea."
"There is a huge hole in the side of the boat and in the an unfortunate development it transpires that the lifeboats are useless."
"So that's quite lucky for you because you can't swim...so you'll die first."
''[Part of the boat explodes]''
"Alright! Alright, alright, alright! I'm going up to the studio! Harold! John! Up here now!"
''[The DJ gets on the radio, and in his DJ persona asks if anyone in the vicinity can save them]'' }}
* [[The Unfair Sex]]: Brutally subverted with Elenore and Simon: {{spoiler|Elenore reveals to the day after they're married that she married Simon only to get to Gavin, with whom she's actually in love. This breaks Simon's heart and even Gavin is disgusted and sends Elenore packing... admittedly after having sex with her}}. Elenore obviously thinks that this trope is how the world works, but no one else agrees.
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Twatt
** There was a Ms. Clit, but [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|that didn't get past the radar.]]<ref>It did, once, in the English subtitles. Cheeky.</ref>
* [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]]: Yes, pirate radio stations, such as Wonderful Radio London and Radio Caroline, really did (and in the case of a few still do) exist. But the British government never actually banned rock music; [[The BBC]], which had a monopoly over the country's airwaves at the time, simply didn't play much of it and when they did, they threw it in at a dead hour. By 1967, the Beeb had set up Radio 1, which did the same thing that the pirates did, except legally and better (and the station had attracted some of the most popular pirate radio DJs, like [[The Last DJ|John Peel]] and [[Kenny Everett]]). A few weeks before the launch of Radio One, Parliament passed the [[wikipedia:Marine Broadcasting Offences Act|Marine Broadcasting Offences Act]], which pretty much killed pirate radio (with a couple exceptions, like Radio Caroline which broadcast until 1990). In the film the Act is passed in January 1967; in real life it was August.
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