Empire Records
A funky little record shop provides the setting for this youthful comedy that centers on the workers there as they try to help poor. The manager who really wants to buy the place, recoups his losses after his well-meaning, but dim-bulbed employee Lucas steals his savings and loses it all in Atlantic City while trying to increase it twofold at the gaming tables. If they can not come up with the loot, the mega-chain Music City will buy it.
25 April 1969, Katy, Texas, USA
24 September 1965, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
November 10, 1975 in Bellflower, California, USA
27 June 1975, Santa Monica, California, USA
26 July 1961, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
13 August 1964, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
1 July 1977, New York City, New York, USA
31 October 1975, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
July 16, 2003
...things just move quickly from one person's conflicts to another, with little momentum or feeling of satisfaction.
April 03, 2003
[Leaves the] impression of artificiality.
January 26, 2006
Overall, fatally ersatz but good natured at heart.
September 10, 2002
Empire Records is little more than a poor man's Clerks, but an entertaining one.
May 28, 2016
It's high on charm and low on quality; the writing is pedestrian at best, the characters are paper-thin, and director Allan Moyle lets the music do the heavy lifting.
August 14, 2007
Lovably sloppy.
April 19, 2008
One of the hippest and most enjoyable movies of the 90s. This ROCKS!
January 01, 2000
If the movie is a lost cause, it may at least showcase actors who have better things ahead of them.
June 22, 2003
Leaves you with the sensation of having chewed a piece of bubblegum until well after its flavour ran dry.
August 11, 2008
A soundtrack in search of a movie, Empire Records is one teen-music effort that never finds a groove.
March 20, 2003
The Empire Strikes Out . . . lame Gen-X "comedy" that falls completely flat . . . Go rent CLERKS
