Empire Records
Cast: Anthony LaPaglia, Maxwell Caulfield, Debi Mazar, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, Coyote Shivers, Brendan Sexton III and Liv Tyler
Director: Allan Moyle
Writer: Carol Heikkinen
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Empire Records is the name of a small record shop where the cynical Joe Reaves (Anthony LaPaglia) is the manager and the employees are local teenagers who love to work there and think they have the coolest job in world.
The movie features the music of Ezra, Gin Blossoms, Evan Dando, Ape Hangers, Toad The Wet Sprocket and The Cranberries and portrays lots of colorful characters. We meet Lucas (Rory Cochrane) and Warren (Brendan Sexton III), AJ (Johnny Withworth) who is in love with Corey (Liv Tyler) and Corey who is in love with Rex (Maxwell Caulfield), Debra (Robin Tunney) who shaves her head because she is tired of being invisible, and Gina (Renée Zellweger) who wants to become a band-singer but doesn’t think she has the guts to do it.
One night, Lucas is asked to close down the store unsupervised but while he is at it, he discovers that Empire Records is on the edge of being converted to a chain store called Music Town. In an attempt to save the store, Lucas decides to take the day’s profit to Atlantic City, but ends up he losing it all.
When the other teenage employees arrive for work the day after, they discover what Lucas has done and it seems that Joe has no other option than to go along with his music store being incorporated in to Music Town. The employees of Empire Records are running out of time and if the store is to be saved, they must think of a way to raise enough money …
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