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Detroit Rock City (1999)

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Reviews Counted:298

Fresh:217

Rotten:81

Average Rating:6.4/10

Consensus: Silly plot, over-the-top directing style.

Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: The year is 1978: the KISS Army is at the height of its powers. Enter card-carrying members Hawk (Edward Furlong), Trip, Lex, and Jam, four Detroit teenagers who will do anything to go to the KISS... The year is 1978: the KISS Army is at the height of its powers. Enter card-carrying members Hawk (Edward Furlong), Trip, Lex, and Jam, four Detroit teenagers who will do anything to go to the KISS show. As we follow them through one day, we see the insane lengths these shaggy-haired young chaps will go to in order to see their favorite rock-and-roll superheroes at a Detroit arena. The band themselves show up in full regalia as their 1978 selves, but Natasha Lyonne steals the show as a sweet young disco mama. [More]

Starring: Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington, Lin Shaye, Melanie Lynskey

Starring: Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington, Lin Shaye, Melanie Lynskey, Natasha Lyonne, Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, Peter Criss

Director: Adam Rifkin

Director: Adam Rifkin
Screenwriter: Carl Dupre
Producer: Gene Simmons, Barry Levine, Kathleen Haase

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