Empire Records

A comical look at the lives and loves of a group of youngsters who work at the local record store. A corporate takeover has the store manager in a fix., A funky little record shop provides the setting for this youthful comedy that centers on the workers there as they try to help poor Joe Anthony LaPaglia), the manager who really wants to buy the place, recoup his losses after his well-meaning, but dim-bulbed employee Lucas (Rory Cochrane ) steals his savings and loses it all in Atlantic City while trying to increase it twofold at the gaming tables. If they cannot come up with the loot, the mega-chain Music City will buy it., A record-store owner and his teenage employees fight to stop a hostile takeover of the business., An erratic day in the life of an independent record store’s colorful teen staff and their misadventures as they learn their store has been purchased by a large chain.