Directed by:
Barry LevinsonScreenplay:
Mitch GlazerCinematography:
Sean BobbittComposer:
Marcelo ZarvosCast:
Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Scott Caan, Danny McBride, Taylor Kinney, Sarah Baker, Glenn Fleshler, Eugenia Kuzmina, Leem Lubany (more)Plots(1)
A has-been rock manager from Van Nuys, California stumbles upon a once-in-a-lifetime voice in a remote Afghan cave in Rock the Kasbah, a dramatic comedy inspired by stranger-than- fiction, real-life events and directed by Oscar winner Barry Levinson. Richie Lanz (Bill Murray), dumped and stranded in war-torn Kabul by his last remaining client (Zooey Deschanel), discovers Salima Khan (Leem Lubany), a Pashtun teenager with a beautiful voice and the courageous dream of becoming the first woman to compete on national television in Afghanistan's version of "American Idol." Richie partners with a savvy hooker (Kate Hudson), a pair of hard-partying war profiteers (Danny McBride and Scott Caan) and a hair-trigger mercenary (Bruce Willis) and, braving dangerous cultural prejudices, manages his new protégée into becoming the "Afghan Star." (Open Road Films)
(more)Cast
Bill Murray
USA
Best movies:
Groundhog Day (1993)
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978) (TV movie)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Bruce Willis
West Germany
Best movies:
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Die Hard (1988)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Zooey Deschanel
USA
Best movies:
The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection (2005) (video compilation)
Almost Famous (2000)
(500) Days of Summer (2009)
Kate Hudson
USA
Best movies:
Almost Famous (2000)
Crise à Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Marshall (2017)
Scott Caan
USA
Best movies:
Enemy of the State (1998)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ocean's 13 (2007)
Danny McBride
USA
Best movies:
Despicable Me (2010)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)
Up in the Air (2009)
Taylor Kinney
USA
Best movies:
Five (2011) (TV movie)
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Stars in Shorts (2012)
Sarah Baker
USA
Best movies:
The Good Lie (2014)
Speech & Debate (2017)
The Last Word (2017)
Glenn Fleshler
USA
Best movies:
The Night Of (2016) (series)
Joker (2019)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Eugenia Kuzmina
Russia
Best movies:
The Gentlemen (2019)
Fury (2014)
Fading Gigolo (2013)
Leem Lubany
Best movies:
Omar (2013)
Saint Judy (2018)
Rock the Kasbah (2015)
Fahim Fazli
Afghanistan
Best movies:
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Iron Man (2008)
Argo (2012)
Kelly Lynch
USA
Best movies:
The Jacket (2005)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Ally McBeal (1997) (series)
Husam Chadat
Syria
Best movies:
Sonne und Beton (2023)
The Man Who Sold His Skin (2020)
Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018)
Arian Moayed
Iran
Best movies:
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
You Hurt My Feelings (2023)
Inventing Anna (2022) (series)
Beejan Land
Australia
Best movies:
The Man Who Sued God (2001)
Rock the Kasbah (2015)
Jonas Khan
Best movies:
The Sweeney (2012)
Rock the Kasbah (2015)
Sand Serpents (2009) (TV movie)
Avery Phillips
USA
Best movies:
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Rock the Kasbah (2015)
Non-Stop (2013) (TV movie)
Mansour Badri
Best movies:
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
War Dogs (2016)
All Three of Us (2015)