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Jun 13, 2020 · Empire Records totally bombed, but 25 years later, it's still got a loyal following - ABC News. By music and pop culture reporter Paul Donoughue. Posted Sat 13 Jun 2020 at 12:00pm, updated Tue 30 Jun 2020 at 5:27pm. Renee Zellweger and Robin Tunney in Empire Records. (IMDB)
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- Anthony LaPaglia. Anthony LaPaglia plays store manager Joe Reaves in Empire Records. Joe is the most responsible of all the young people working at the store and actively fights the mega-chain purchase.
- Rory Cochrane. The cause of most of the trouble in Empire Records is Lucas, an employee with more heart than brains who loses the stores remaining $9000 at a casino when he tries to raise enough to stop the mega-store purchase.
- Johnny Whitworth. Empire Records’ romantic sub-plot involves A.J., a shy but kind record store employee, played by Johnny Whitworth. A.J. pines after Corey Mason (Liv Tyler) and his expression of love is at first rebuffed before finally being accepted in the end.
- Ethan Embry. Ethan Embry is credited as Ethan Randall in Empire Records where he is cast as Mark, one of the employees of the store. Mark takes a backseat to most of the action but has the “lightbulb” moment at the end of the movie about how to raise money for the store with the TV cameras present.
- Liv Tyler as Corey Mason. Liv Tyler put on that iconic cropped baby blue sweater to play Empire Records' (1995) Corey Mason — a witty, good girl with a secret drug problem.
- Renée Zellweger as Gina. When Renée Zellweger played Corey's wild-child best friend, Gina, she had just appeared in two other '90s classics — Dazed and Confused (1993) and Reality Bites (1994).
- Anthony LaPaglia as Joe Reaves. Before the Australian-born Anthony LaPaglia played Joe — the Empire Records owner trying to wrangle his employees to save the store — he had appeared in So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) and The Client (1994).
- Robin Tunney as Debra. Robin Tunney shaved her head to play edgy store clerk Deb — which meant she had to wear a blonde wig to star in her next film: The Craft (1996).
- Anthony LaPaglia (Joe) Anthony LaPaglia played Joe, the manager of Empire Records and father figure for its disparate group of isolated teenage employees.
- Renée Zellweger (Gina) In the film's undeniable breakout performance, Renée Zellweger played Gina, an Empire employee whose effortless confidence allows her to seduce aging pop idol Rex Manning.
- Liv Tyler (Corey) A classic example of the pretty, smart student who's secretly falling apart on the inside, Liv Tyler's Corey is the only Empire employee legitimately excited for Rex Manning Day.
- Debi Mazar (Jane) Debi Mazar's Jane starts out as Rex Manning's beleaguered assistant, but eventually ditches him for the free spirits of Empire Records, supporting the employees' attempts to save their store.
Sep 25, 2015 · September 25, 2015. Empire Records has one of the unlikely cult fanbases in all of filmdom. More or less disavowed by the studio, it hit a mere 87 theaters instead of the planned 1250 when it...
Plot. At independent record store Empire Records in Delaware, employee Lucas has been tasked by store manager Joe with closing the store for the first time. While counting the day's receipts in Joe's office, he discovers the store is about to be sold and converted into a branch of Music Town, a large national chain.
Jun 14, 2020 · Empire Records totally bombed, but 25 years later, it’s still got a loyal following. Paul Donoughue. Jun 14, 2020, updated Jun 14, 2020. Renee Zellweger and Robin Tunney in Empire Records. Photo: Regency Enterprises/IMDB. If you grew up in the 1990s, you might be familiar with Empire Records.
