Groove (film)

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
Edited by	Greg Harrison
Distributed by	Sony Pictures Classics
Release dates	2000 (2000)
Running time	86 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$500,000 (estimated)

Groove is a 2000 American film that 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 cameo as himself and also contributed to the soundtrack with Nick Muir, under their production alias Bedrock.

Plot

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

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
• Vincent Riverside as Anthony
• 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 Randolph Hampton as DJ WishFM
• Monty Luke as Dancefloor DJ #5 (Cinco)
• John Digweed as DJ Digweed
• Bing Ching as DJ Snaz
• Elizabeth Sun as Maggie McMullen
• Nick Offerman as Sergeant Channahon

Funding

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

See also

• Go, another film about rave culture made a year earlier
• Human Traffic, a UK film about the rave culture made the same year

References

• Brown, Janelle (2000) Salon Magazine

External links

• Groove at IMDb
• Groove at Rotten Tomatoes
• Rave On - The Daily Californian
• The history of San Francisco’s club scene - beatport
• groove - Filming Locations — Film in America