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| A Night At The Roxbury |
Wealthy Yemeni-American brothers
Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug Butabi
(Chris Kattan) enjoy frequenting Los
Angeles nightclubs,
where they bob their
heads in unison to dance music
Is Love") and fail miserably at picking up
women. Their dream is to party at the
Roxbury, a fabled nightclub where they
are continually denied entrance by a
hulking bouncer (Michael Clarke
Duncan). By day, the brothers work at
an artificial plant store owned by their
wealthy father, Kamehl Butabi (Dan
Hedaya). They spend most of their time
goofing off, daydreaming about opening
a club as cool as the Roxbury together,
and Doug using credit card transactions
as an excuse to hit on a phone approval
operator. The store shares a wall with a
lighting emporium owned by Fred
Sanderson (Dwayne Hickman). Mr.
Butabi and Mr. Sanderson hope that
Steve and Emily (Molly Shannon),
Sanderson's daughter, will marry,
uniting the families and the businesses to
form the first plant-lamp emporium.
After a day at the beach the brothers
decide that tonight is the night they will
finally get into the Roxbury. Returning
home, Doug gets into a heated argument
with their father about going out
clubbing instead of staying home. Their
father has planned a dinner party with
Emily and her parents. The angered Mr.
Butabi then denies them access to their
BMW car and their cell phones. They are
given enormous cell phones by their
mother (Loni Anderson)
and allowed use
of the fake-plant store's delivery van,
they are quickly rejected by the doorman
(Michael Clarke Duncan). After
discovering they might bribe their way
into the club, the brothers drive around
looking for an ATM. They get into a
fender-bender with Richard Grieco
(playing himself) and to avoid a lawsuit,
Grieco uses his fame to get them into the
popular club. There they meet the owner
of the Roxbury, Benny Zadir (Chazz
Palminteri), who listens to their idea for
a nightclub of their own. He likes them
and sets up a meeting with them for the
next day. The brothers also meet a pair
of women at the Roxbury: Vivica (
Gigi Rice) and Cambi (Elisa Donovan),
who see them talking to Zadir and think
that the brothers are rich.
On the way to the after party at Mr
. Zadir's house, the brothers annoy his
driver and bodyguard Dooey (Colin
whip and making jokes about sleeping
with his parents. As revenge, the next day
Dooey denies them entry into Zadir's
office for their meeting. He tells the
brothers that Zadir was drunk out of his
mind last night and does not know who
they are. In reality, Zadir really wants to
see them, but does not have their contact
information. The girls break up with the
Butabi brothers after realizing they are
not really wealthy. The brothers fight
and Doug moves out of their shared
bedroom and into the guest house.
Meanwhile Steve is forced into an
engagement with Emily. The wedding
is held in the backyard of the Butabi
residence, but is interrupted by Doug.
Having gone on a fluffy-whip-fueled
bender, he interrupts the wedding,
reconciles with his brother, and the
wedding is called off. Afterwards,
Richard Grieco (a guest at the wedding)
talks to Mr. Butabi to help him
understand that Steve was not ready for
marriage, and that Butabi is too hard on
Doug.
The movie ends as the Butabi brothers
happen upon a hot new club. The
building is unique in that the exterior is
constructed to resemble the interior of a
nightclub, and the interior resembles a street — this was an idea pitched by Doug
and Steve to Zadir earlier in the movie.
Attempting to enter, they are surprised
to find their names on the VIP list. In
addition, Zadir reveals that to reward
their idea, he has made them part-
owners of the club. Their new-found
success comes full circle when they meet
two women in the club: Doug's phone
representative from the credit card
company (Meredith Scott Lynn) and a
police officer (Jennifer Coolidge) whom
Steve earlier flirted with while getting a
Some parts may not be for younger viewers but all in all it's a funny movie and we enjoy it. Maybe you will too. :)
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