Groove (film)

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Groove
Groove Promotional Movie Poster
Directed by	Greg Harrison
Produced by	Greg Harrison
Written by	Greg Harrison
Starring	Mackenzie Firgens, Hamish Linklater
Music by	Scott Hardkiss (song and end theme)
Cinematography	Matthew Irving
Editing by	Greg Harrison
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release date(s)	2000
Running time	86 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Budget	$500,000 (estimated)
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Groove is a movie released in the year 2000; 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 role in the movie and also contributed to the soundtrack with Nick Muir, under their production alias Bedrock.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Funding
4 Parodies
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Plot

Groove tells the story of an all night rave. The film is broken up into segments by which a DJ is spinning and features the 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.

[edit] Cast

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
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 Hampton as DJ WishFM
Monty Luke as Dancefloor DJ #5
John Digweed as DJ Digweed
Elizabeth Sun as Maggie McMullen

[edit] Funding

After being turned down by studios for funding, the production costs were procured by selling shares of the film to investors similar to angel investment of a startup company.^[1]

[edit] Parodies

At least one parody of this film was made called Grill.^[2] It follows the same basic storyline as the movie but replaces the rave with a cookout and the DJ with the cook at a grill. The cookout gets shut down by a cop wanting no more noise but gets started up when the featured chef shows up with a new box of meat. It came out roughly the same time as the movie and is available on iFilms.