Detroit Rock City (film)

Detroit Rock City is a 1999 American comedy film directed by Adam Rifkin and written by Carl V. Dupr. It tells of four teenage boys in a KISS cover band who try to see their idols in concert in Detroit in 1978. Comparable to Rock n Roll High School, Dazed and Confused, The Stned Age, and I Wanna Hold Your Hand, it tells a comingofage story through a filter of 1970s music and culture in the United States. It ultimately took its title from the Kiss song of the same name.

In Cleveland, Ohio, 1978, a middleaged woman Lin Shaye is relaxing at home and puts on a vinyl record to listen to. While sipping a red wine and reading while humming The Carpenters Weve Only Just Begun, she becomes agitated as rock music plays. When she discovers the record being KISS Love Gun album and a secret cache of KISS albums, she is revealed to be ultraconservative when she says KISS, the devils music. She then leaves the house.Meanwhile, four rebellious teenage boys in a KISS cover band named Mystery practice the KISS song Rock and Roll All Nite in one of their members homes. The band, consisting of guitaristvocalist Hawk Edward Furlong, bassistvocalist Lex Giuseppe Andrews, lead guitaristvocalist Trip James DeBello, and drummervocalist Jeremiah Jam Bruce Sam Huntington, become elated to have tickets to see their idols in concert in Detroit the following night. Later, the same woman from the beginning races up to the house where the boys are hanging out and drags Jam home. She is revealed to be his mother, Mrs. Bruce. Later discovering the tickets, she burns them and has Jam transferred to a Catholic boarding school. ........

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