Tag: Rock the Kasbah

Rock the Kasbah: Bill Murray’s Richie Vance talent scout’s for Afghan version of American Idol

3:10 PM EST 1/8/2015

Open Road Film’s Rock the Kasbah would be released on April 24 to US theaters. Directed by Barry Levinson and written by Mitch Glazer, the comedy film stars Bill Murray as Richie Vance, a burned-out music manager who embarks with his only client on a USO tour of Afghanistan. There, he finds himself abandoned, stranded, penniless and without his passport. Soon however, he discovers a young Afghan girl with an amazing voice who stows away with him back to Kabul. He coaches her through an audition for the local version of the television show American Idol, called The Afghan Star. However, says the official synopsis, when jealousy gets the better of a disgruntled ex-boyfriend, he decides to oppose the young star with talent of his own.Read more

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