The fresh-faced cast of newcomers and edgy, restless camerawork make up for the script's inherent predictability.
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04/17/01
Groove (2000)
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Reviews Counted:50
Fresh:28
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: Though high on energy and great techno tunes, Groove's characters and plotlines are too cliched to be engaging.
Runtime: 86 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: San Francisco's rave scene is exposed in this exciting independent drama from writer-director Greg Harrison. Colin Turner invites his brother David, a struggling writer, to a party named GROOVE,... [More]
Starring: Lola Glaudini, Hamish Linklater, Denny Kirkwood, Mackenzie Firgens
Director: Greg Harrison
Reviews for Groove
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12/10/01
The words don't mean much, but it has got a good beat and you can dance to it.
01/01/00
In the process of enlightening the masses on the hipster party scene, Mr. Harrison forgot to make an interesting movie.
01/01/00
Pleasantly modest, endearingly etched and briskly set to a pounding beat.
01/01/00
This film seems a little sanitized.
01/01/00
Achieves its high by tapping into the real thing -- the wonder of making movies.
01/01/00
Most of the performances are stiff, and the awkward dialogue is made even worse by the way in which it is delivered.
01/01/00
What Groove lacks in personality it makes up for in breathless, cafeinated, fervid presentation.
01/01/00
Basically, the party itself is actually pretty fun.
01/01/00
There's such a sunny air about this subterranean party story that it's difficult not to like.
01/01/00
Harrison has such a wry, benign view of his subjects, and such an obvious appreciation of rave culture, that the film goes down effortlessly.
01/01/00
Harrison understands his material, creating a slice of life that pulses like one of John Digweed's mixes.
01/01/00
Harrison's eye for detail paints a fairly vivid slice-of-life picture.
01/07/10
Like drug movies from the 1960s, it's naive, believing that the problems of the straight life can be solved by dropping out and tuning in.
01/01/00
Top CriticA little bland, but it puts you in the mood to forgive it: relaxed and mellow and accepting.
01/01/00
What's infectious about Groove is the friendly, almost innocent way that its brat pack of digital-age bohemians seek liberation in a world where there is nothing left to rebel against.
01/01/00
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