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Empire Records (1995)

★ 6.7 · 801 ratings on TMDB

They're selling music but not selling out.

Empire Records poster★ 6.7

The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

DirectorAllan Moyle
CastAnthony LaPaglia, Brendan Sexton III, Debi Mazar, Ethan Embry, Johnny Whitworth, Liv Tyler
GenresComedy, Drama
The emergence reading

Empire Records keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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