GB> Making Waves (movie)

[Bry Carling]

We're gonna rent it soon...

> The "Making Waves" title is pretty popular; one of the alternatives
> looks like a documentary about radio broadcasting in Louisiana from
> LPR.
> 
> Here is the blurb from the sales page on CDUniverse
> (http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7477649):
> 
>   "Ham radio enthusiasts are an odd bunch. In this romantic
>   comedy about falling in love over the wavelengths,
>   eccentrics such as a marooned cosmonaut stuck on the Mir
>   space-station, a lonely video store owner, and a paranoid
>   conspiracy theorist all blurt out their thoughts to anyone who
>   will listen. Despite all this nuttiness, two transmitters cross
>   wires and fall in love. But will meeting in the real world be up
>   to their fantasies created on the air?"
> 
> 
> And here is the URL of the movie's IMDB page:
> 
>   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418851/
> 
> The trailer makes reminds me of the trailer for another movie I
> haven't seen -- "Sweet November" startting Keanu Reeves & Charlize
> Theron.
> 
> Speaking of Keanu, why are they remaking "The Day the Earth Stood
> Still" and with him in the lead?  He's all right but not the guy I
> would pick, if you have to remake that one at all....
> (radio reference:  the theramin on the original soundtrack....)
> 
> 
> Mike, n2mho in SNJ
> ****************************************************************
> 
> On 1/13/08, Bry Carling <bcarling at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > MAKING WAVES - British romantic movie appears to be
> > about a love relationship that develops on the 80m ham band!
> >
> > I think this might be of interest to some of you.....
> >
> > YouTube trailer -
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L81DqSpkz7M

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