![]() ![]() Some business with the divorced Richie and his cute little daughter is abandoned as a lost cause early on. Laughter dies.Īpart from its simple existence, the script, by Mitch Glazer, is further burdened by half-hearted subplots. ![]() Upon arrival in Afghanistan, we see burqa-bagged women tottering around and hear talk of murdering any less-pious females who might attempt to break free from the local Muslim cultural code. With gigs understandably nonexistent, Richie follows a tip from a barroom drunk to take Ronnie out on a remunerative USO tour to entertain troops deployed in the Middle East. The movie begins as a middling comedy, with Murray's Richie Lanz, an over-the-hill rock-band manager, operating out of a seedy Van Nuys motel room, holding fast to his only present-day client, a karaoke singer named Ronnie (Zooey Deschanel). In Rock the Kasbah, Bill Murray looks as weary as the material that's been hammered together to make this ill-conceived film.
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