The Rocker is a 2008 comedy starring Rainn Wilson, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Emma Stone, Christina Applegate, Jason Sudeikis, Will Arnett, Fred Armisen and Bradley Cooper. The film was written by Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky, best known for his Emmy-winning work on The Simpsons from a story by Ryan Jaffe, and directed by Peter Cattaneo, whose most-acclaimed earlier work is The Full Monty, a film for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best...
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The Rocker is a 2008 comedy starring Rainn Wilson, Josh Gad, Teddy Geiger, Emma Stone, Christina Applegate, Jason Sudeikis, Will Arnett, Fred Armisen and Bradley Cooper. The film was written by Maya Forbes & Wallace Wolodarsky, best known for his Emmy-winning work on The Simpsons from a story by Ryan Jaffe, and directed by Peter Cattaneo, whose most-acclaimed earlier work is The Full Monty, a film for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Director. Despite relatively heavy promotion, the film is notorious for being one of the least-profitable films of 2008.
During the mid-80's, Robert "Fish" Fishman (Rainn Wilson) was the drummer for Vesuvius, a local glam metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. After playing a local gig, Fish's bandmates are approached by their manager, who says that a label is interested in them but will not sign them unless they get rid of Fish for the nephew of the label's president as their new drummer. At first, the band refuses on account that it was Fish who...
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