
On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. Meet David Turner, a Midwest transplant. He moved to the city with aspirations of starting his career as a writer but his hopes have stalled. After four years he finds hims... (Full plot summary below)
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On Friday, a single e-mail blips through the Internet. The word spreads quickly through the city: the party is on. Saturday evening, two hundred people secretly converge at an abandoned San Francisco warehouse. As the sun sets the records start spinning, setting into motion a night that no one will forget. Meet David Turner, a Midwest transplant. He moved to the city with aspirations of starting his career as a writer but his hopes have stalled. After four years he finds himself writing instruction manuals for a computer company. Overworked and with little social life, David spends his time alone, his dream of being a novelist a distant memory. That night, his brother Colin Turner invites him to GROOVE. Colin has a surprise for his new girlfriend, young raver sprite Harmony Stitts, and he wants David there. David reluctantly agrees and is shocked when Colin proposes to Harmony at the party. In the ensuing celebration, they take Ecstasy and suddenly, David is thrust into the world of the San Francisco underground. In a chance encounter, David meets longtime New York raver Leyla Heydel and makes an unlikely connection. Through their budding relationship, they're reminded of a sense of possibility and freedom in their lives they had all but forgotten. But as the party rages on, Colin reveals a deep secret, one that threatens to destroy his relationship with Harmony. When the sun rises the party disappears, and the chaos of the last twelve hours changes the two brothers forever.
Leave your thoughts about Groove.
| culturevulture.netScott Von DoviakWatching someone else look at their hands, or stare at a pattern of psychedelic colors, or engage in the sort of banal chit-chat that seems so heavy when you're stoned out of your gourd, just doesn't cut it as entertainment. |
| Kansas City StarRobert W. ButlerHarrison has such a wry, benign view of his subjects, and such an obvious appreciation of rave culture, that the film goes down effortlessly. |
| Film.comRobert HortonThe story of Groove... provides an ingratiating road map to a cultural phenomenon. Just make sure you drink lots of water while you're there. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaHarrison's eye for detail paints a fairly vivid slice-of-life picture. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderOffers a look at the underground rave scene, providing an accurate picture of what one night must be like, but without giving any insight beyond the superficial. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenA fun, well-assembled and -performed slice of life that requires no special affinity with the subject matter in order to -- ahem -- get one's groove on. |
| PopMattersBeth ArmitageThe words don't mean much, but it has got a good beat and you can dance to it. |
| Apollo GuideKurt DahlkeHarrison understands his material, creating a slice of life that pulses like one of John Digweed's mixes. |
| Village VoiceDennis LimGroove is less a work of subcultural ethnography than a curiously dorky act of hipster sincerity, less party movie than cheesy valentine |
| San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisIn its very reluctance or inability to be the rave film as opposed to a love note to the scene, Groove kind of gets it right. |