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Synopsis: 1987. Naive Sherrie Christian has just arrived in Hollywood from Tulsa looking to become a rock star. She is just like Drew Boley was when he first arrived in Hollywood, he, now the Hollywood veteran, who works as a bar back at the Bourbon Club, known as the center of the rock scene in town and the place where many of the biggest acts in rock got their big break. The two meet as Drew helps Sherrie with a situation when she first arrives in town. Despite Dennis Dupree, the Bourbon's owner/manager, not liking to hire people like Drew or Sherrie - someone who has musical aspirations - as service staff, Drew is able to convince Dennis and his assistant Lonny to hire Sherrie as a server, Drew and Sherrie who have a blossoming mutual attraction. Dennis and Lonny, who are having financial difficulties, are able to convince rock star Stacee Jaxx, the perpetually stoned front man for the band Arsenal who got his first break performing at the Bourbon, to perform for free at a benefit concert at
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Director(s): Adam Shankman
Production: New Line Cinema
  1 win & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
47
Rotten Tomatoes:
41%
PG-13
Year:
2012
123 min
$38,509,342
Website
4,436 Views


Thank you.

What are you thanking me for? l ruined

your life. You start training tomorrow.

This place is turning into a war zone.

It's Arsenal's last show.

Arsenal? Oh, my God, l love Stacee Jaxx.

It's your lucky day. He's going solo.

Hey, want to go celebrate?

I'm coming up on my break.

Yeah. Sure.

A year ago....

A year ago,

people asked whose campaign...

...I would throw

my financial support behind...

...and I knew there was only one man

on the ticket...

...that could restore the city

to its original glory.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Mayor Mike Whitmore.

Thank you. Couldn't have done it

without you, Doug.

Ahh.

Thank you, Los Angeles.

You know, Doug Flintlock here...

...well, he just leaned into my ear

and he said

"Mike, l have kids. Teenagers.

And these days, I'm scared for them.

We need to clean up this city."

Well, I can tell you that...

...I, for one, am not scared

for our city's children.

And that's because

I have a secret weapon.

My rock.

My soul mate.

And the best darn wife

any man could hope to have.

Please welcome my wife

The beautiful Patricia Whitmore!

Oh.

Come on up here, Patty-cake!

We did it!

Oh. Thank you.

Today, the city of Los Angeles

gets a twofer!

Not only the best mayor this city

has ever had...

...but also me.

A mother.

So tomorrow, as part of my

"Clean Up The Strip" initiative...

...we start to make this city safe

again for our young people.

She looks familiar to me, this woman.

She looks eerily familiar.

You've probably popped something on

your ass that resembles her.

I shouldn't have thought so. That's all

cleared up nicely, thank you very much.

Rock 'n' roll is a disease.

But it is a disease with a cure.

You don't know her.

Man, back then, her husband,

Mayor Whitmore...

...used to be one of my best customers.

Wow. Now look at him.

Married to a woman

who looks like she's been hibernating...

...in Margaret Thatcher's bumhole.

--off our streets

and knock the sucker back....

What happens to people?

Don't know, Den.

Suppose they get corrupted

and seduced by the Man...

...get old and bitter and run for mayor.

Or they run a club,

live the rock 'n' roll dream...

...and get old and bitter that way.

Here's to rock 'n' roll.

To rock 'n' roll.

And let's reclaim the Strip for the

God-fearing citizens of Los Angeles!

I cannot believe

that I'm working at The Bourbon.

Thank you so much.

Don't even mention it.

Oh, my God.

Arsenal Live at The Bourbon.

-Hands down, favorite record ever.

-Me too.

I would've killed to be at that concert.

That record really changed my life.

I decided if I couldn't see Stacee Jaxx...

...I was gonna be Stacee Jaxx.

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Justin Theroux

Justin Paul Theroux (; born August 10, 1971) is an American actor, film producer, comedian, and screenwriter. He is known for his work with film director David Lynch in Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006), his starring role as Kevin Garvey in the HBO series The Leftovers (2014–2017) and as Tom in The Girl on the Train (2016). He is also known as a screenwriter for films such as Tropic Thunder (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010). more…

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