Empire Records (1995)
Directed by Allan Moyle
The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.
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Yet although his cinematic beginnings predate those of John Hughes, Moyle's Pump Up the Volume and Empire Records are eclipsed by even the lesser entries in Hughes' teen canon, such as Sixteen Candles and the Hughes-produced Pretty in Pink .
Yet although his cinematic beginnings predate those of John Hughes, Moyle's Pump Up the Volume and Empire Records are eclipsed by even the lesser entries in Hughes' teen canon, such as Sixteen Candles and the Hughes-produced Pretty in Pink .
The writing is pedestrian at best, the characters are paper-thin, and director Allan Moyle (Pump Up the Volume) lets the music do the heavy lifting, over-scoring it to a point of comic overkill; even the slightest bit of action or emotion gets a new music cue.
Like Christian Slater's disaffected disc jockey in 1990's "Pump Up the Volume" (also directed by Allan Moyle ), Cochrane's record clerk is a smart, alienated individualist with an oblique sense of humor.
Yet although his cinematic beginnings predate those of John Hughes, Moyle's Pump Up the Volume and Empire Records are eclipsed by even the lesser entries in Hughes' teen canon, such as Sixteen Candles and the Hughes-produced Pretty in Pink .
Anyway, you might know Moyle for his latest directorial effort, "Empire Records", which is entertaining but a huge letdown from this earlier film.
Quebec born and raised director Allan Moyle shows very little of the intelligence and originality he put in his brilliant "Pump Up the Volume", but his latest is still rather dynamic and enjoyable.
The Canadian Moyle, whose inauspicious directorial debut was the 1977 tax-shelter crime flick The Rubber Gun, discovered teenagers three years later with his oddity of a second film Times Square and has only occasionally looked back since.