Empire Records

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This story about a day in the life of an independent record store, truly a threatened species, screeches with the sound of teenagers falling apart emotionally every five minutes. The script, which feels like an old guy's idea of how kids talk and think, concerns the young employees of a Delaware music shop faced with imminent extinction. While the ship is sinking, the staff indulge in tantrums, depressions, and run-ins with low self-esteem. There's a lot of noise in this thing, but not a lot is really said. Rory Cochrane has the best part as a secretive guy who loses the store's proceeds one night while gambling, Anthony LaPaglia is the adult boss and unofficial dad to the others, Renée Zellweger plays a promiscuous girl, and Liv Tyler is OK as a lovestruck sweet thing trying to get up the nerve to express her feelings to a fellow employee. --Tom Keogh

Recently watched it. It was mentioned multiple times in guilty pleasure threads, so I thought I'd better give it a shot. Glad I did, what a neat little movie. I'm not sure how I missed it. Very easy to relate to it, since I worked in the restaurant biz for many years at it was very similar.

I loved how they incorporated the music into the script. Very rewatchable movie with plenty of great lines.

I've added this one to my repertoire "I'm guided by a force much better than luck"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112950/

 

[PDXChris]

It has a great cast in it. I love this movie with a passion. I worked in a Record Shot when it came out and glues quarters to the floor where we held shoplifters and it worked twice.

 

[Gaddabout]

"Actually, his new album tested well among teenage males."
"Jane, did you compare the percentage of teenage male Rex Manning fans to the incidence of homosexuality amongst teenage males?"

 

[Zeno]

I love this movie...very entertaining.

 

[AsUdUdE]

"Actually, his new album tested well among teenage males."
"Jane, did you compare the percentage of teenage male Rex Manning fans to the incidence of homosexuality amongst teenage males?"

One of the most underated funniest lines in movie history..

I watched this movie 20 times, definintly a good one

 

[gr000000vy]

Damn the Man Save the Empire!!