Story of movie Groove Film : Groove is a 2000 American film directed by Greg Harrison. 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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| Directed by | Greg Harrison |
| Produced by | Greg Harrison |
| Written by | Greg Harrison |
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| Music by | Scott Hardkiss (song and end theme) |
| Cinematography | Matthew Irving |
| Edited by | Greg Harrison |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
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Running time | 86 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $500,000 (estimated) |
Screenplay
Groove tells the story of an all-night rave. The film is broken up into segments by which DJ is spinning and features real-life DJs 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.
- 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
- Vincent Riverside as Anthony
- 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 Randolph 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
- Nick Offerman as Sergeant Channahon
After being turned down by studios for funding, production costs were met by selling shares of the film to investors similar to angel investment of a startup company.
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 57% based on 51 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 6.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Though high on energy and great techno tunes, Groove's characters and plotlines are too cliched to be engaging." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 54 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
- Go, another film about rave culture made a year earlier
- Human Traffic, a UK film about the rave culture made the same year
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