Vinyl Junky and Romantic Flunky

Rating: 8/10 (21 March 2014)

This is a Specialty Movie about a Speciality Store with Especially Eccentric Patrons, Owners and Employees. Music Junkies that are mostly Flunkies is Societal Terms that can Quote Liner Notes and Record Label Minutia but have a Difficult Time Relating to Girls. it is a Nerdish-Geekish Cliché but when done with a Labor of Love Intensity like what goes on here, it can be quite Insightful and Entertaining.
Your Enjoyment of this Movie will Depend on a Toleration for Fourth Wall Shatterings with Direct at the Camera Monologues and Your Knowledge and Attachment to Pop Music and its Place and Importance in Shaping Our Culture. There is a lot of Banter about Musical Taste and Snobbish Cynicism about those who "don't get it".
But there is also Another Side to this Vinyl Obsessed Opus and that is the Romantic Part that Segues Back and Forth with the Hipster Trivia and it is the Jerky Relationships and Nervous Uncomfortableness that John Cusack Suffers Anytime He is out of the Record Store and out of His Element, and that is Reflected by the Elements Wrath of Rain that He Encounters.
It is an Offbeat and Fresh Movie with Limited Appeal but has found a Cult Audience (no surprise) and may be just Sweet Enough for a Date Movie if the the Girl in Attendance has an Inkling of Cultural Awareness, Pop Music History, and a Tolerance for that Most Male of Things, an Immature, Irresponsible, Obsessive Attachment and Unhealthy Devotion to Hobbies.