Detroit Rock City
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Detroit Rock City |
| Original title | Detroit Rock City |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adam Rifkin |
| script | Carl V. Dupré |
| production | Gene Simmons |
| music | J. Peter Robinson |
| camera | John R. Leonetti |
| cut |
Mark Goldblatt Peter Schink |
| occupation | |
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Detroit Rock City is an American comedy film from 1999. Directed by Adam Rifkin .
action
Cleveland, 1978: The four friends Hawk, Trip, Jam and Lex want to go to Detroit for a concert of their favorite band KISS . However, Jam's ultra-conservative mother, who regards the band's music and ambiguous poses as “the work of the devil”, discovers her tickets in Jam's jacket pocket, burns them and puts him in a very strict boarding school.
In class, however, the other three boys forge a plan to get four concert tickets. Although Trip wins the tickets in a raffle run by a radio station, he hangs up the phone before he can leave his name so that the tickets go to the next caller. Without this knowledge, they free Jam from boarding school and make their way to Detroit. On the way there they run into trouble with anti-rock disco fans. When they arrived in Detroit, after hearing about Trip's behavior on the radio station, they fell into mourning. Nevertheless, the friends still decide to go to the concert. In order to improve the chances of success, they split up and everyone sets out on their own to get a ticket or to come to the hall in another way.
But despite all the attempts to get a ticket single-handedly, where everyone experiences their own "little adventure", and numerous adversities, the unsuccessful guys meet again shortly before the start of the concert and think they can come to the concert if they meet each other beat up and fake a card theft. But the card tears give them little faith. However, Trip discovers the guys who have stolen his wallet shortly before, accuses them and thus ensures that the four are still allowed to go to the concert.
reception
Cinema wrote of the film that it was a “fast-paced homage to the legendary US comic rock band Kiss with a lot of music from the 70s,” the story of Hawk, Trip, Jam and Lex is told in this “adventurous teenage comedy in an extremely amusing way. " The reviewer stated in his short summary that the film was a " tribute to a great rock band. "
Trivia
- The film not only includes the appearance of the band KISS as a travel destination. There are other allusions to KISS, also for the reason that the film was produced by Gene Simmons .
- For the concert at the end of the film, a performance by the band in the style of the 70s with 8000 fans was played again.
- Most of the KISS products in the film are from Gene Simmons' personal collection.
- Two of the girls in the film are called Beth and Christine, whose names allude to song titles by KISS ( Beth and Christine Sixteen ).
- The title of the film is also the title of a KISS song .
- Shortly before the concert, a delegation from MATMOK (Mothers against the Music of KISS) stands in front of a church and demonstrates against the concert. The first mother on the rostrum is the real wife of Paul Stanley, the rhythm guitarist and singer from KISS.
- Amanda Finch, the woman who takes Hawk out for a drink at the strip club, is portrayed by Shannon Tweed . Ex- Playboy model and wife of KISS bassist Gene Simmons.
- The American women's rock band The Donnas , which stylistically u. a. is heavily influenced by KISS, a cover version of the KISS classic Strutter contributed to the soundtrack of the film .
Web links
- Detroit Rock City in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review: Dirk Winkelmann in "Cinema", issue 9/1999, page 103