Empire Records

1995 Directed by Allan Moyle

They're selling music but not selling out.

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.

Anthony LaPaglia Debi Mazar Maxwell Caulfield Liv Tyler Robin Tunney Renée Zellweger Ethan Embry Coyote Shivers Brendan Sexton III Ben Bode Rory Cochrane Johnny Whitworth James 'Kimo' Wills

Alternative Titles

Sexo, Rock & Confusão, Mousiko pandaimonio, Μουσικο Πανδαιμονιο, Deseos Cumplidos

comedy drama music

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Popular reviews

Review by adrianbalboa ★★★½ 7

what i would give to work at a record store in the nineties. think of the cropped sweater + mini skirt possibilities. think of the boys in oversized shirts and cardigans. this is my ideal life
Review by Holly-Beth ★★★½ 4

a time capsule to 1995 when it was liv tyler’s world and we were all just living in it
Review by Hollie Horror ★ 21

OH MAN! What a piece of shit!!!
This is the first movie in my Nostalgia Overload list where I came out on the other side of the re-watch absolutely hating a movie I once loved. I haven't seen Empire Records in about 15 years but I honestly used to love it. How embarrassing.
This movie is a very corporate look at what they consider "indie" films, with an ironic twist..you know..considering the entire plot of the movie is an independently run record store trying to avoid being bought out by a national corporation.
I hate everyone in this movie; all of the annoying, over-the-top, insincere caricatures of "gen Xers," MARK: THE MOST AGGRAVATINGLY IRRITATING OF THEM ALL, Robin Tunney as…
Review by dunya. ★★★★ 1

Why don't part time jobs like these exist in real life?
Review by yazz! *･ﾟ✧ ★★★ 1

oh to be a hot, well-dressed teen who works at a record store and gets to dance around with my friends on the rooftop whilst the best song ever recorded — this is the day by the the — plays in the background
Review by Lizzy ★★★★ 17

if i owned this record store it would be insufferable for everyone because the only albums i would ever allow in stock would be by Mitski
Review by vee ★★★★

i would kill for nineties liv tyler
Review by Sally Jane Black Sunday 22

I really could not figure out how they could afford to have the whole staff there at the same time, except if the nightly total is $9,000, I mean, that's pretty good, right. Other unbelievable things include actually every other part of this film. Nothing in this film is believable. It is as if John Hughes tried to make a Hal Hartley film. It is as if Reality Bites were made by NBC instead of MTV. It is as if that reporter who believed all the fake grunge slang made a movie based on it. And if you go in expecting a train wreck, it's quite enjoyable.
You can see the good movie lurking underneath this one. It's usually frustrating…
Review by Ian West ★ 15

Might break some hearts here but that’s life. I Haven’t watched this in twenty years and for good reason... I was the target audience for this movie during its heyday and even back then I thought this was just ok—way to corporate to ever be as punk rock as it’s so desperatly trying to be and loaded with egregious gen x caricatures that made me want to dry heave even back then. It’s even worse now—I rarely say this but I HATE this movie... I can’t stand record store culture (I worked in one for about 3 years) and every character in this movie is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
I’m never going to watch this again and…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★½ 1

65
A fantasy in which the small-town record shop kills the music-store chain.
Review by aaron ★★★★½

oh what I would give to work at empire records alongside liv tyler
Review by justmiaslife ★★★½

Such was so 90s, both in the best and worst way possible, but it completely hit the mood i was in. Also: In 1995 it was probably woke to show the sign of the Trump plaza...i guess you shouldn‘t do that anymore 🤭

Recent reviews

Review by 𝓼𝓹𝓸𝓸𝓴𝔂 𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓬𝓱 🎃 ★★★★

This music is the glue of the world Mark. It's what holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless.
talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely not ever been done before.
Review by dasborak ★★

I liked the fact that everthing happened in one day. That is the only thing i liked about the movie.
Review by Chris Dorward ★★½

Has early Cameron Crowe vibes.
Review by Hank Mardukas 🎟 🎞 ★★★½

Marc Sucks.
Review by Maurício Teles ★½

what a mess
Review by angie ★★★

liv tyler. that’s it. that’s the review.
Review by lolidontknow ★★★★½

i want to work here. and be best friends with mark.
Review by ana ;) ★★★★½ 1

tava precisando de um filme assim, me fez sentir sdd de ir p escola n sei pq.
mais um filme q se passa num dia só e não tem bem um plot, mas continua sendo perfeito.
renee e liv LINDAS roupas LINDAS apenas amor por elas.
n tenho nd mt profundo pra falar sobre esse filme, só que eu passei o filme todo querendo cortar meu cabelo....
ATUALIZAÇÃO: cortei o cbl
Review by meg ★★★★★

my heart my tiny little heart
Review by sara ★★★★

lucas...you’re lucky that you’re sexy.
Review by jorge ★★★½

*opens shazam*
Review by nika ★★★★

god i wish that were me... 💔