![]() Rifkin himself was a Kiss fan growing up in 70s Midwestern America, and with Kiss bassist Gene Simmons acting as co-producer, the era's celebratory rock culture is expertly recreated, with lots of knowing in-jokes. Director Adam Rifkin (who wrote Mousehunt) likens his film to classic teen dramas American Graffiti (1973) and Rock 'N' Roll High School (1979), but at its most childish Detroit Rock City is more akin to the low farce of the notorious Porky's series, albeit with a vintage rock soundtrack.ĭetroit Rock City benefits from a painstaking attention to detail. ReviewĬombining the 70s period detail of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights with the timeless appeal of a teenage-gang adventure tale, Detroit Rock City is a rock-'n'-roll comedy high on energy, yet - strangely for a film centred on teenage friendship - low on warmth. The thugs are ejected and their tickets given to Trip and his buddies. ![]() Trip convinces the stewards that these are his attackers. After a fruitless quest, the four friends resort to beating one another up in order to trick concert stewards into believing they have been mugged and had their tickets stolen.Īs they arrive at the venue, four hoodlums who have extorted money from Trip also turn up. Their ensuing adventures lead both Hawk and Jam to lose their virginity, the latter in a church confessional box, the former to an older woman whom Jam meets in a bar after trying to win a strip contest. ![]() The quartet separate to try their luck at finding yet more tickets. Trip, meanwhile, wins four more tickets in a radio phone-in, but on arrival in Detroit discovers the tickets have been awarded to another caller because Trip hung up before leaving his name. Jam is sent to a church school, but his friends steal Lex's mother's car and effect Jam's escape by feeding a drug-laced pizza to the school's principal. ![]() The boys' excitement turns to horror when Jam's mother burns the tickets in the belief that Kiss' music is inspiring delinquency in her son. Four Midwestern high-school students - Lex, Trip, Hawk and Jam - have tickets to see their favourite band Kiss in concert in Detroit. Our synopses give away the plot in full, including surprise twists.ġ978. ![]()
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