KISS | Are you ready for the hottest band in the land? Detroit Rock City (1999)
Detroit Rock City is a 1999 American comedy film about four teenagers in a Kiss cover band who try to see their idols in Detroit in 1978.
The three remaining boys discover the next morning that their KISS concert tickets are missing, figuring that Trip's jacket carrying the tickets got swapped with Jam's. Jam is not able to retrieve the tickets from his jacket before school due to his mother watching over him as he dresses. What is worse for Jam, Mrs. Bruce makes him wear new, ugly clothes she had bought for him at KMart. Jam's mother later discovers the tickets (screaming her outrage over the school's PA system) and destroys them in front of Jam (and the others, watching around the corner) by setting them on fire.
Mrs. Bruce then drags Jam from his school and has him transferred to a Catholic boarding school upstate. This leaves the remaining boys in a state of shock. While in tech class, the three remaining boys hear a radio contest for KISS concert tickets at Cobo Hall that night. Trip leaves class, so he can call the contest line and he ends up winning the tickets. The boys then ditch school to bust Jam out of the Catholic school. They take Lex's mom's car, a Volvo 200 series. The trio arrives and Hawk disguises himself as an arriving pizza delivery guy and delivers a pizza ordered by the priest, Father McNulty (Joe Flaherty) who is currently lecturing Jam, that has been spiked with hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms.
The film was shot at Cedarbrae Collegiate Institute in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and other Ontario locations. Other Ontario locations include Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, Ontario.
The movie opens in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 19, 1978. Hawk (Edward Furlong), Lex (Giuseppe Andrews), Trip (James DeBello), and Jam (Sam Huntington) are four rebellious teenagers who emulate and tribute Kiss to a degree in their own garage band called "Mystery." Having discovered his secret cache of Kiss albums, Jam's ultra-conservative and religiously hysterical mother, Mrs. Bruce (Lin Shaye), races up to the home and drags Jam to the car, throwing Jam's Love Gun album into a trash can.
The three remaining boys discover the next morning that their KISS concert tickets are missing, figuring that Trip's jacket carrying the tickets got swapped with Jam's. Jam is not able to retrieve the tickets from his jacket before school due to his mother watching over him as he dresses. What is worse for Jam, Mrs. Bruce makes him wear new, ugly clothes she had bought for him at KMart. Jam's mother later discovers the tickets (screaming her outrage over the school's PA system) and destroys them in front of Jam (and the others, watching around the corner) by setting them on fire.
Mrs. Bruce then drags Jam from his school and has him transferred to a Catholic boarding school upstate. This leaves the remaining boys in a state of shock. While in tech class, the three remaining boys hear a radio contest for KISS concert tickets at Cobo Hall that night. Trip leaves class, so he can call the contest line and he ends up winning the tickets. The boys then ditch school to bust Jam out of the Catholic school. They take Lex's mom's car, a Volvo 200 series. The trio arrives and Hawk disguises himself as an arriving pizza delivery guy and delivers a pizza ordered by the priest, Father McNulty (Joe Flaherty) who is currently lecturing Jam, that has been spiked with hallucinogenic psilocybin mushrooms.
Father McNulty becomes high, allowing them to whisk Jam away (apparently, they brought some of Jam's regular clothes with them as well).
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