Comedy

Comedy Cinema – This Week – The Rocker

Welcome to the sister article to Comedy Clicks! Each week, we will be taking an in depth look at some of the best comedy films that the world of cinema can offer! Today we will be looking at The Rocker.


About the Film

Summary of Plot

. iMDB

Year Of Release

2008

Running Time

1 Hour 42 Minutes

Director

Peter Cattaneo

Tagline

A comedy for the rockstar in all of us

Box Office Opening Weekend

$2,636,048


Trailer


Starring


Rainn Wilson – Fish
Josh Gad – Matt
Christina Applegate – Kim
Teddy Geiger – Curtis
Emma Stone – Amelia
Jeff Galin – Stan
Jane Lynch – Lisa


Song From the OST


Trivia

  • Loosely based on Pete Best, who was the original drummer for The Beatles, and can be seen at the beginning of the movie reading Rolling Stone Magazine with Vesuvius on the cover.
  • Emma Stone learned to play bass for the movie. She can play all the songs in the movie.
  • Rainn Wilson’s characters name was Robert “Fish” Fishman. Jon “Fish” Fishman plays drums in the rock band Phish.
  • While Fish (Rainn Wilson) is sitting at the dinner table with his sister’s family, Matt (Josh Gad) talked about how he got accepted to M.I.T. Josh Gad appeared in 21 (2008) and played the part of an M.I.T. student who was best friends with the main character.

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