Hamish Linklater, Lola Glaudini
This is not a rave review, but it is a review about a rave. Translation: Groove, an agreeable trifle of a movie, is about one of those underground parties where teens and young adults, fueled by the feel-good drug Ecstasy, stay up all night dancing to techno music. Though the film never mentions that drug by name, its partygoers (a shy writer, an aging rave habitué, a newly engaged couple) all pop pills that make them excessively garrulous, sexually uninhibited and the owners of happy feet. Energetically directed and non-judgmentally written by newcomer Greg Harrison, Groove serves as either an informative introduction to the scene for the uninitiated or, for cognoscenti, an accurate snapshot of how they spent last weekend. (R)
Bottom Line: The party line forms here
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