Themes: Party Film, Fish Out of Water, Sibling Relationships
Main Cast: Lola Glaudini, Denny Lee Kirkwood, MacKenzie Firgens, Hamish Linklater, Rachel True, Steve Van Wormer
Release Year: 2000
Country: US
Run Time: 83 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Following other indie films about the kinetic, drug-saturated rave culture such as Go (1999) and Human Traffic (1999) comes this ensemble movie, set in San Francisco. At the film's opening, the main characters are introduced at breakneck speed, including Leyla (Lola Glaudini) who recently arrived from New York, Neo-hippie Harmony (MacKenzie Firgens), who is celebrating her birthday with her boyfriend Colin (Denny Kirkwood), and Colin's nerdy brother David (Hamish Linklater), who would much rather read than rave. As the film charts David's first taste of chemically-induced ecstasy and his budding romance with Leyla, who serves as his trip guide, it also includes a small vignette of the tattoo and piercing set, including blissed-out drug dealers and their attempts at scamming on chicks, a skinhead looking for trouble, and a gay couple who just can't quite figure out where the blasted rave is. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Nick Offerman - Sgt. Channaham; Ari Gold - Cliff Rafferty; Bradley Ross
Credit
Greg Harrison - Director, Greg Harrison - Editor, Matthew T. Irving - Cinematographer, Greg Harrison - Producer, Danielle Renfrew - Producer, Greg Harrison - Screenwriter
Groove is a movie released in the year 2000; it portrays one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene. Through a single email, 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 with Nick Muir, under their production alias Bedrock.
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 DJ Forest Green, 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.
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.[1]
Parodies
At least one parody of this film was made called Grill.[2] 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.
See also
Go, another film about rave culture made a year earlier
Human Traffic, a UK film about the rave culture made the same year
