History Film / DetroitRockCity

* SexAsARiteOfPassage: After losing his virginity to [[spoiler: Beth]], Jam finally works up the courage to stand up to his mother, and acts noticeably more self-confident and less meek for the remainder of the film.

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: The group would have been able to go to the concert without a hitch if Jam had hidden his records in a better hiding place than a Carly Simon album cover to avoid detection at home. Since he did, and his mom found the record, she kicked off the entire plot of the movie by dragging him home, Trip's jacket, finding (and destroying) the tickets in said jacket, and sending him to boarding school.

* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Trip hung up before the DJ asked for his contact information to ensure the gang would actually ''get'' the tickets they had won on the radio.]]

* TestosteronePoisoning: Kenny and Bobby are a pair of cocky, aggressively macho disco fans.

** Jam has to confess how he feels to the girl he likes, as well as stand up to his mother.

* SexAsARiteOfPassage: [[spoiler:After losing his virginity to Beth, Jam finally works up the courage to stand up to his mother, and acts noticeably more self-confident and less meek for the remainder of the film.]]

* VomitIndiscretionShot: [[spoiler:In an attempt to overcome his stage fright, Hawk drinks a large amount of alcohol before performing his strip tease. This results in him throwing up onstage and filling up ''an entire pitcher''.]]

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler:After Chongo beat up Trip anyway, Trip lied that Chongo and his crew beat them up and stole their tickets.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Trip:''' [[IronicEcho I really hoped things would work out. You got spunk]].]]

* MyBelovedSmother: Jam's chain-smoking, bible-thumping mom who burns the gang's KISS tickets. She doesn't even let him get dressed in private after picking her son up from Lex's house.

** Jam has this reaction when he's wandering the streets of Detroit in search of KISS tickets, and realizes that his mom's "church meeting" is the Mothers Against The Music Of KISS rally outside of the show.

--> '''Jam:''' "Then all you have to do is go to church, light a candle, and pray to some stupid little statue for me and all is forgiven and forgotten, right mom? [[MoralGuardians Then you can spend your days in a guilt free pursuit of more constructive activities like telling everybody ''else'' how screwed up ''their'' lives are!]] And then you no longer need the patience and understanding required to talk to your own son on some normal plain! And then that way you don't have to ''think'' about how tough it was for you when you were growing up, and its probably a good thing too, 'cause if you did, you'd realize what a ''lousy, goddamn, shitty-ass '''parent''' you are!''"

''Detroit Rock City'' is a 1999 comedy film staring Creator/EdwardFurlong, Guiseppe Andrews, JamesDeBello, and Sam Huntington. Set in January of 1978, the film follows four high school students who are trying to gain entry to a sold-out Music/{{KISS}} concert. The film was a box office flop and was met with mixed reviews from critics, but among KISS fans it has become a CultClassic.

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Inverted; Jam is the sweetest of the four.

* BerserkButton: When Kenny and Bobby destroy Hawk's ''Love Gun'' 8-track, it prompts Hawk to retaliate with violence. His friends quickly follow suit.
** Hawk loses it again when his half-witted bandmate [[spoiler: it's Trip]] costs them a set of replacement tickets.
* BigNo
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the boys did succeed in their goal of making it to the KISS concert, Jam may spend the next 2 years at a religious boarding school where he'll be cut off from his friends and likely miserable.... or perhaps not, given that [[CallingTheOldManOut he did stand up to his mom]].]]
* ChekhovsGun: Trip's stolen wallet.

* GarageBand: Mystery

* MyBelovedSmother: Jam's chain-smoking, bible-thumping mom who burns the gang's KISS tickets. She doesn't even let him get dressed in private.
* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Trip hung up before the DJ asked his name and address.]]

* TheStoner: All of them to different degrees.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the boys did succeed in their goal of making it to the KISS concert, Jam may spend the next 2 years at a religious boarding school where he'll be cut off from his friends and likely miserable.... or perhaps not, given that he did stand up to his mom.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:While the boys did succeed in their goal of making it to the KISS concert, Jam is going to spend the next 2 years at a religious boarding school where he'll be cut off from his friends and likely miserable.]]

* FanserviceExtra: Averted. The cougar who seduces Hawk is played by Shannon Tweed, a former Playboy Playmate who made a career out of taking her clothes off in B-movies that typically aired on late-night Cinemax or Showtime. In this movie, however, she keeps her clothes on.

* MrsRobinson: Shannon Tweed (Gene Simmons' wife) plays a cougar who offers money to Hawk for sex. [[spoiler: He refuses the money up front, they have sex anyway, and she STILL gives him the money.]]

* ShownTheirWork: The fued between disco fans and rock fans depicted in this film was a real thing. By the late 1970s anti-disco sentiment was growing across the United States, with many people wearing t-shirts baring slogans such as "Disco Sucks" and "Death Before Disco". In 1979 the public backlash against disco resulted in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Demolition_Night Disco Demolition Night]], a massive anti-disco demonstration that made national news and is credited with playing a major role in Disco's fall from popularity.

* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Hawk does a striptease to Kiss's "Strutter".

''Detroit Rock City'' is a 1999 comedy film staring EdwardFurlong, Guiseppe Andrews, JamesDeBello, and Sam Huntington. Set in January of 1978, the film follows four high school students who are trying to gain entry to a sold-out Music/{{KISS}} concert. The film was a box office flop and was met with mixed reviews from critics, but among KISS fans it has become a CultClassic.

* BadToTheBone: A badass moment is underscored by [[BlackSabbath "Iron Man"]].

* InJoke: At one point in the film Christine comments that "Disco is so huge right now it wouldn't surprise me if KISS did a disco song," prompting dismissive laughs from the guys. One year after the film takes place KISS would release the disco song "I Was Made For Loving You", much to the dismay of many of their fans.

* SexAsARightOfPassage: [[spoiler:After losing his virginity to Beth, Jam finally works up the courage to stand up to his mother, and acts noticeably more self-confident and less meek for the remainder of the film.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:While the boys did succeed in their goal of making it to the KISS concert, Jam is going to spend the next 2 years at a religious boarding school where he'll be cut off from his friends and likely miserable.]]
** Considering the shape that the boys leave both the headmaster of the school and Jam's mom in, this is something of a YMMV interpretation.

* MrsRobinson: Shannon Tweed (Gene Simmons' wife) plays a cougar who offers to Hawk for sex. [[spoiler: He refuses the money up front, they have sex anyway, and she STILL gives him the money.]]

* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Hawk does a striptease to Kiss's "Strutter".

** Considering the shape that the boys leave both the headmasterof the school and Jam's mom in, this is something of a YMMV interpretation.

''Detroit Rock City'' is a 1999 comedy film staring EdwardFurlong, Guiseppe Andrews, JamesDeBello, and Sam Huntington. Set in January of 1978, the film follows four high school students who are trying to gain entry to a sold-out Music/{{KISS}}concert. The film was a box office flop and was met with mixed reviews from critics, but among KISS fans it has become a CultClassic.

* MrsRobinson: Shannon Tweed (Gene Simmons' wife) plays a cougar who pays Hawk for sex.

Detroit Rock City is a 1999 comedy film staring EdwardFurlong, Guiseppe Andrews, JamesDeBello, and Sam Huntington. Set in January of 1978, the film follows four high school students who are trying to gain entry to a sold-out [[Music/{{KISS}} KISS]] concert. The film was a box office flop and was met with mixed reviews from critics, but among KISS fans it has become a CultClassic.