Empire Records
Certified O. Anderson Top 20 Film
The Plot:
This
rocking, slice-of-life comedy examines one so-strange-it's-normal day at a
busy record store, from the manager's attempts to cope with his bizarre young
staff to the loves, lusts and whinings of his slacker clerks. From the director
of "Pump Up the Volume." (From Yahoo Movies)
My Thoughts: (Revied by O. Anderson)
Empire Records is a film about an old record store, and the young employees that work in it. When one of the employees discovers that the record shop is being sold to Music Town, a large chain of CD stores, because of a lack of money to keep it running, he tries to become the hero and takes what little money they have to Atlantic City... only to lose it all. The film revolves around the following day.
After seeing this movie, I am stongly inclined to edit my Top Ten list. This film was recommended to me while I was raving about "The Royal Tenenbaums", and I decided to give it a try. It follows the same "off-beat" criteria that RL sets, and, therefore, I enjoyed "Empire Records" thoroughly. Seriously, it has to be one of the most random, weird movies I have ever seen. The characters each have distinct personalities, and watching them interact makes for a really funny and weird movie. I'm not sure, though, if it is supposed to be a comedy. It portrays some heavy themes, like the always-pleasant drugs and sex, and three or four times, you think that nothing worse can happen to someone in the movie, but then it does. Only the fact that it's a little too heavy for a good laugh keeps it from attaining five stars. Aside from this, it has a good cast, namely Liv Tyler and Renee Zellweger. Overall, a great film. Rent it, see it, somehow.
Starring: Liv Tyler, Anthony LaPaglia,
Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane
Directed by: Allan Moyle
Rated
PG-13