Groove (film)
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| Directed by | Greg Harrison |
| Produced by | Greg Harrison |
| Written by | Greg Harrison |
| Starring | Mackenzie Firgens, Hamish Linklater |
| Music by | Scott Hardkiss (song and end theme) |
| Cinematography | Matthew Irving |
| Editing by | Greg Harrison |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Release date(s) | 2000 |
| Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 (estimated) |
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 cameo as himself and also contributed to the soundtrack with Nick Muir, under their production alias Bedrock.
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[edit] Plot
Groove tells the story of an all night rave. The film is broken up into segments by which 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.
[edit] Cast
- 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 (Cinco)
- John Digweed as DJ Digweed
- Bing Ching as Dj Snaz
- Elizabeth Sun as Maggie McMullen
[edit] Funding
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]
[edit] 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
[edit] References
- ^ Salon (2000) p.2
[edit] External links
- Groove at the Internet Movie Database
- Groove at Rotten Tomatoes
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