According to Wikipedia, Detroit Rock City made a pathetic five million dollars at the box office but has since become a cult classic that "has been often compared to the 1993 film Dazed and Confused." That might be a nice way of saying it tries damned hard to be like Dazed and Confused (a real cult classic about a single, crazy night in the '70s), right down to the dude who apparently hoped to build a career born out of playing a combination of Slater from D&C and Jay from Kevin Smith's movies. Yeah, that didn't happen.
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