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Information
- Year
- 1995
- Runtime
- 90 min.
- Director
- Allan Moyle
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Comedy, Music
- Rating *
- 6.7
- Votes *
- 32,772
- Checks
- 4,452
- Favs
- 329
- Dislikes
- 57
- Favs/checks
- 7.4% (1:14)
- Favs/dislikes
- 6:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Allan Moyle's Empire Records predates the similar High Fidelity by 5 years, but it's so full of half-formed ideas, I can't really give it a leg up. A bunch of teenage characters work at a record store (including young Liv Tyler and Renée Zellweger) for the rather ambivalent figure of Anthony LaPaglia as the manager (ambivalent adult figures seem to be trope in Moyle's films, just like the overachieving girl whose parents unreasonably push her harder) whose store is about to be sold to a big franchise. Various subplots criss-cross the narrative without real focus - the boy who wants to finally tell the girl he loves her, the girl who just tried to kill herself, the has-been music star come to sign records, the cliched idea of putting on a show to save the business... Nothing unpleasant, but nothing that really grips you long enough to say "THIS is what the movie's about". And what to make of Rory Cochrane's Puck-like character, moving through the story with a detached, magical touch. What is his relationship to the manager? It all plays a little too weird. I do like many story beats, just like I enjoy about half the tunes chosen for the soundtrack, but Empire Records just never really comes together the way Moyle's other teen operas did. 5 months 1 week ago -
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daisymay
We watched this last night. It's ok, not a masterpiece, but kinda funny and cute. Great music tracks though! 13 years 7 months ago