Synopsis
In 1978, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. For the three teen fans in Detroit Rock City getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters, even rob a convenience store!
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Cast
- Giuseppe AndrewsLex
- James DeBelloTrip Hurudie
- Edward FurlongHawk
- Sam HuntingtonJeremiah 'Jam' Bruce
- Lin ShayeMrs. Bruce
- Melanie LynskeyBeth Bumsteen
- Natasha LyonneChristine
- Shannon TweedAmanda Finch
- Emmanuelle ChriquiBarbara
- Kristin BoothCashier
Recommandations
- 70
Chicago Reader
Unlike the many youth movies that can't overcome their makers' hindsight, this one may actually put you in an adolescent frame of mind. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The tuneful melodies of their favourite band grace the soundtrack, but let's not confuse this with a rock 'n' roll movie -- the music is just the blank canvas awaiting the higher art of the gross-out. - 50
Village Voice
There's an awful lot of rocking out going on in Detroit Rock City, but then rocking out is this occasionally clever but lifeless movie's reason for being. - 30
Washington Post
Well, it could have been good. But this goofy homage to Kiss fans gets dry mouth pretty fast. - 30
Film Threat
If you love KISS, you'll probably see this movie anyway. If you don't, there's no point. - 25
Chicago Tribune
A rock 'n' roll film should be funny-crazy -- not just a big, dumb promo for some over-the-hill dudes in makeup who are trying to sell today's kids on yesterday's glory by championing deliquency. - 20
The New York Times
The cast never has much chance to shine. And the main attraction is kept all too understandably under wraps. - 10
Los Angeles Times
This aggressively stupid film is merely business as usual, a compendium of all the current obsessions and fixations that make so many of these films such unhappy experiences.
