Groove (2000)

User Rating:

5.9/10   

Director:

Greg Harrison

Writer:

Greg Harrison (writer)

Release Date:

19 October 2000 (Germany)

Genre:

Drama | Music

Tagline:

are you feeling it?

Plot:

An inside look into one night in the San Francisco underground rave scene.

Plot Keywords:

Raver | Rave | Ecstasy | Warehouse | DJ

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Chris Ferreira	...	Bill
Elizabeth Sun	...	Maggie
Steve Van Wormer	...	Ernie
Dmitri Ponce	...	Guy (as Dmitri from the Lower Haight)
Mackenzie Firgens	...	Harmony
Ari Gold	...	Cliff
Aaron Langridge	...	Joe
Wendy Turner-Low	...	Lisa
Bradley K. Ross	...	Aaron (as Bradley Ross)
Rachel True	...	Beth
Denny Kirkwood	...	Colin
Matthew Bernson	...	Record Store Customer
Bing Ching	...	DJ Snaz
Jeff Witzke	...	Neil
Jill Jose	...	Monique

MPAA:

Rated R for drug use, language and brief sexuality.

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Finland:K-18 | Norway:15 (DVD rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Chile:18 | Germany:16 | Spain:13 | UK:18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

San Francisco, California, USA

Company:

415 Productions

Trivia:

The featured or "Headliner" DJ who gives the young DJ Spaz the Bedrock anthem record at the end of the film really is John Digweed.

Goofs:

Continuity: Midway through the movie after the police man gets a tour of the "company" he is holding a bottle of water that is nearly full, but a few seconds later when he takes a drink, the bottle is nearly empty.

Quotes:

[Bill is passing up all drugs but marijuana for the night]
Bill: Baked, not fried... the healthy choice.

Movie Connections:

References "Wheel of Fortune" (1975)

Soundtrack:

Mental Block

This was an excellent show of the rave party scene.

This film was verrrry well done. To those that say it wasn't...I guess you have never owned a club where raves took place. I did.

I bought this movie in a stack of films and it only cost me 99 cents. Well shock the pants off me.

What I thought would be a lame party and just a bunch of stoners walking around talking trash was certainly an enlightenment.

GROOVE is EXACTLY what a rave is about...and how would I know? I know because I hosted them myself...packed to the hilt in Vancouver B.C. at PLANET X...and you could guess what the X stood for.

Anywayz, this is very well done in terms of casting, lighting performance, music, tone and everything.

The scene that struck me most is when Ernie says this...and this is classic to me.

Guy: Why do you do this to yourself? Don't even get paid, risk getting arrested, for what? Ernie: You don't know? Guy: No. Ernie: The Nod. Guy: The Nod? Ernie: Happens to me at least once every party. Some guy comes up to me and says "Thank you for making this happen... I needed this. This really meant something to me." And they nod... and I nod back. Guy: ... That's it? Ernie: That's it.

That little piece of dialogue is everything...it's what made me want to run the rave at PLANET X, even thought I was't making big bucks...to me it was the NOD...

So I know exactly where Ernie was coming from...and I felt the director Greg Harrison was getting to.

Watch Groove and relive your youth before it slips away from you in your daily 9-5 and rush hour traffic.

I only wish I was at the club...because it was so intense and so real...and made me so jealous that I was only watching it on my TV screen.

With a $500000 budget, this is tops.

Once again, everybody...extras and all cast included...an awesome job and one very satisfied viewer...certainly worth my time.