Empire Records is a 1995 comedy-drama about a group of record store employees. The film was directed by Allan Moyle and stars Anthony LaPaglia, Rory Cochrane, Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, and Liv Tyler.
Empire Records is a small record shop managed by the cynical Joe (Anthony LaPaglia). His employees are all local teenagers, many of whom are outsiders in some way or another (at one point in the movie they are referred to as gum chewing, tattooed...
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Empire Records is a 1995 comedy-drama about a group of record store employees. The film was directed by Allan Moyle and stars Anthony LaPaglia, Rory Cochrane, Renée Zellweger, Ethan Embry, and Liv Tyler.
Empire Records is a small record shop managed by the cynical Joe (Anthony LaPaglia). His employees are all local teenagers, many of whom are outsiders in some way or another (at one point in the movie they are referred to as gum chewing, tattooed, silver pierced freaks). During the open sequence Joe selects Lucas (Rory Cochrane) to close down the store unsupervised. While in the store alone, Lucas discovers that Empire Records is on the brink of being converted to a franchise of a chain called Music Town. In an attempt to save the store, Lucas takes the day's cash receipts to Atlantic City, where he loses it all.
The following morning, the young employees arrive for work. A washed-up pop star named Rex Manning (Maxwell Caulfield) is due to arrive to sign autographs, but no one is...
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