Synopsis
The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try anything to stop the store being absorbed by a large chain.
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Cast
- Anthony LaPagliaJoe Reaves
- Maxwell CaulfieldRex Manning
- Debi MazarJane
- Rory CochraneLucas
- Johnny WhitworthA.J.
- Robin TunneyDebra
- Renée ZellwegerGina
- Ethan EmbryMarc
- Coyote ShiversBerko
- Brendan Sexton IIIWarren
Recommendations
- 60
Empire
For all its faults, the good-natured, quirky humour that this for the most part offers ultimately makes it very hard to dislike. - 50
The A.V. Club
The film exists for its shots of telegenic youngsters busting loose to a bankable soundtrack, and it's the cheesy dialogue, overstuffed plot, and predictable character arcs that come across as superfluous. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Insubstantial, predictable and often dull, it's a dismaying move from director Allen Moyle, who displayed a real grasp of pulp energy in 1990's "Pump Up the Volume". - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The movie is too blatant a throwback to crass '80s teen fodder to really work. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
If the movie is a lost cause, it may at least showcase actors who have better things ahead of them. - 20
Variety
A soundtrack in search of a movie, Empire Records is one teen-music effort that never finds a groove. - 0
Los Angeles Times
The sun can't set too soon on this "Empire." [23 Oct 1995, Pg.F9]
