Duke of Groove

Name: Duke of Groove
Genre: Drama
Duration: 32 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Kate Capshaw, Chris Chavkin, Elliott Gould

TV Movie
1995
32m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

285

YOUR RATING

Drama

Mother takes her teenage son to a party to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.Mother takes her teenage son to a party to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.Mother takes her teenage son to a party to make sure he will not be at home when father leaves the family for good.

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IMDb RATING

5.7/10

285

YOUR RATING

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Trivia
Directorial debut for Griffin Dunne.

Quotes
Rich Cooper: Y'know, I'm very athletic and girls think I'm a jerk so... I don't know how feminine that makes me.
Maya: I just meant, I find you attractive so, I... assumed that all girls did.
Rich Cooper: No... you're the only one.
Maya: What do you mean they think you're a jerk?
Rich Cooper: You know, like... like they think I'm nice or something - and that makes me a geek. But the guys who call them 'bitches' to their faces - they're the ones who scoop 'em up. Y'know? And I don't get that.
Maya: Sometimes I think that the guys who don't treat me right are the ones who know what I'm really like.
Rich Cooper: What do you mean?
Maya: It's like they... know something about me - something I've always suspected. Something horrible, and rotten, and... and my sentence for this crime is to spend time with some - nightmare, sadistic, asshole.

Connections
Edited into Four Tales of Two Cities (1996)

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Featured review

6/10

A Very Personal Night Shared with the Viewers

In the end of the 60's or in the beginning of the 70's, Rich Cooper (Tobey Maguire) goes with his mother Rebecka (the gorgeous and sexy Kate Capshaw) to a crazy party, where Janis Joplin and other stranger guests are present. He gets a bootleg tape of his idol Bob Dylan from the host (Kiefer Sutherland), a kiss from a beautiful girl he met in the party, Maya (Uma Thurman) and a news in the end: that night, his father had left his mother. This short story seems to be the experience of probably some important person in Hollywood when he was young. It is very personal. It is about a very special night of a teenager, an `asshole' in the eyes of the girls as mentioned by Rich to Maya, who goes to a party, makes success with a beautiful girl, gets a great gift and receives unpleasant news. My vote is six.