- Groove (film)
Infobox Film
name = Groove
caption = Groove Promotional Movie Poster
director =Greg Harrison
producer = Greg Harrison
writer = Greg Harrison
starring = Mackenzie Firgens, Hamish Linklater
music = Scott Hardkiss (song and end theme)
cinematography = Matthew Irving
editing = Greg Harrison
distributor = Sony Pictures Classics
released = 2000
runtime = 86 min.
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget = $500,000 (estimated)
preceded_by =
followed_by =
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imdb_id = 0212974"Groove" is a movie released in the year 2000; it portrays one night in the San Francisco underground
rave scene. Through a singleemail , the word spreads that a huge rave is going to take place in an abandoned warehouse.John Digweed has a role in the movie and also contributed to the soundtrack withNick Muir , under their production alias Bedrock.Plot
"Groove" tells the story of an all night rave. The film is broken up into segments by which a DJ is spinning and features the real life DJs
Forest Green (DJ) , WishFM, Polywog, and Digweed. It follows David Turner (Hamish Linklater ), who becomes a reluctant raver when his brother Colin (Denny Kirkwood ) drags him to the rave.Cast
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Mackenzie Firgens as Harmony Stitts
*Lola Glaudini as Leyla Heydel
*Denny Kirkwood as Colin Turner
*Hamish Linklater as David Turner
*Steve Van Wormer as Ernie Townsend
*Rachel True as Beth Anderson
*Dmitri Ponce as Guy Pritchkin
*Ari Gold as Cliff Rafferty
*Aaron Langridge as Joe Torres
*Wendy Turner-Low as Lisa Monroe
*Bradley K. Ross as Aaron Lubiarz
*Polywog as DJ Polywog
*Forest Green as DJ Forest Green
*Wade Hampton as DJ WishFM
*Monty Luke as Dancefloor DJ #5
*John Digweed as DJ Digweed
*Elizabeth Sun as Maggie McMullenFunding
After being turned down by studios for funding, the production costs were procured by selling shares of the film to investors similar to angel investment of a startup company. [Salon (2000) p.2]
Parodies
At least one parody of this film was made called "Grill". [ [http://www.ifilm.com/video/427879 Grill - SPIKE ] ] It follows the same basic storyline as the movie but replaces the rave with a cookout and the DJ with the cook at a grill. The cookout gets shut down by a cop wanting no more noise but gets started up when the featured chef shows up with a new box of meat. It came out roughly the same time as the movie and is available on iFilms.
ee also
*"Go", another film about rave culture made a year earlier
References
* [http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2000/01/28/groove/index.html Brown, Janelle (2000) Salon Magazine]
External links
*imdb title|id=0212974|title=Groove
*rotten-tomatoes|id=groove|title=Groove
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