Rock the Kasbah (2015) (original) (raw)

A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.

A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan. However, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own. (less)

Director: Barry Levinson
Writer: Mitch Glazer
Starring: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel, Leem Lubany, Arian Moayed
Producer: Jacob Pechenik

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Review by Brian Orndorf, October 22, 2015

3 / 10

�Rock the Kasbah� is reminiscent of the horrible 2006 comedy, �American Dreamz,� which attempted to blend jazz-hands satire with profound Middle Eastern war zone woes, ending up shrill and disastrously unfunny. �Rock the Kasbah� isn�t as broad, but it shares a fruitless determination to turn a volatile region into big screen joy, trying to overcome real-world threat without actually thinking tonality through. It�s a mess of a movie, overlong and undercooked, almost entirely reliant on star Bill Murray to crank up his cocktail-hour charms and save the day while the production slumps from one sc ...read more...

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