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Empire Records (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• A sign by the register that says "Have a nice daze" shows the logo for Dazed and Confused (1993). Rory Cochrane, who plays Lucas, played Slater in Dazed and Confused.
  
  
• Robin Tunney's character has a horizontal suicide-attempt scar on her wrist. In The Craft, her character has a vertical suicide-attempt scar.
  
  
• The movie was originally filmed as two days but was cut and fit to one.
  
  
• A DVD version released in 2003 entitled "Empire Records Remix, the Fan Edition" featured a new edit of the film with scenes never seen before, along with new deleted scenes, special features, and more.
  
  
• At the time this movie was made, Coyote Shivers was married to Bebe Buell, which made him the step-father of co-star Liv Tyler.
  
  
• Warren, played by Brendan Sexton III, was supposed to have a sister, but like Tobey Maguire, her scenes and ultimately her character was deleted from the final cut of the film.
  
  
• The movie was written by a former employee of Tower Records store #166 (Christown Mall) in Phoenix, Arizona. When the film was released and for a long time afterward, a number of her former coworkers still working cited anecdotes and other elements of the film that related to the store. This store closed in early 2005, ten years after the film's release.
  
  
• The Alice in Chains painting that appears on the wall of the store and is later sold, is of the cover art from that band's 1990 debut album, ‘Facelift’.
  
  
• When angrily leaving Rex Manning's parting words are "Why don't you all just fade away?" which are lyrics from the song "My Generation" by The Who.
  
  
• Maxwell Caulfield's character, Rex Manning, was on a TV show titled "The Family Way" in his earlier career. This is the same title of a film in which his current sister-in-law, Hayley Mills, had a starring role.
  
  
• When Lucas uncovers the plans for "Music Town" he says "in the immortal words of The Doors, "the time to hesitate is through'". This is from their song "Light My Fire".
  
  
• Most of the actors in this movie, Anthony LaPaglia, Rory Cochrane, Johnny Whitworth, Robin Tunney, Ethan Embry, and Ben Bode, were later cast as main characters or guest stars in one or more popular crime drama.
  
  

• SPOILER: In one of the deleted scenes, the makeshift rooftop band is arrested and taken away. This is based on the real-life incident of The Beatles playing atop the Apple Records building and being arrested.
  
  

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