An ensemble comedy loosely based on a true story, this film is about a pirate radio station run from a boat in the North Sea in the 1960s. Radio Rock, which broadcast from the boat, shook up Britain with its hardrocking tunes. Rhys Ifans, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy and Philip Seymour Hoffman all play rogue DJs who keep the boat rocking. Kenneth Branagh is a humorless government official who makes it his life's mission to shut the boat down. The soundtrack features classic rock tunes. Directed by Richard Curtis. With Tom Wisdom and Talulah Riley, Kenneth Branagh. Categories: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance. Year: 2009.
Richard Curtis in The Boat That Rocked
Can the owner of a small bookstore in London's multi-cultural Notting Hill neighborhood find love with the biggest star in Hollywood? That's the question in Notting Hill, in which Hugh Grant plays the bookstore owner and Julia Roberts is the actress he meets by chance. Grant and Roberts make for a charming couple in this gentle romantic comedy, but Rhys Ifans gets the biggest laughs as Grant's slacker roommate. Directed by Roger Michell. With Richard McCabe, James Dreyfus and Dylan Moran. Categories: Comedy, Romance. Year: 1999.
Richard Curtis in Notting Hill
Charles (Hugh Grant) is a noncommittal Englishman who meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at a friend's wedding. After falling head over heals for the beautiful American, Charles proceeds to awkwardly woo her through one funeral and three more weddings. But when Charles finds himself standing at the altar with her, he realizes that he has dedicated himself to a woman he has no desire to spend the rest of his life with. Directed by Mike Newell. With John Hannah, Kristin Scott Thomas and Rowan Atkinson. Categories: Comedy, Romance, Drama. Year: 1994.
Richard Curtis in Four Weddings and a Funeral