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| Source | ID | Link |
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| GoodReads | 256719713 | https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256719713 |
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Description
"In the tradition of Animal House, Meatballs and Revenge of the Nerds comes a brand new futile and stupid gesture..."
Two days before Halloween, 1987, Video Town owner Stephen Beckerman crosses paths with obnoxious Barnaby Winthrop, the owner of the corporate Showtime Video emporium located directly across the street from "Beck's" little family video shop. They bet to see who rents out five thousand videocassette tapes in forty-eight hours, with the added incentive of five thousand bucks up for grabs. The war is on and both men plot to win through wild promotions and the outrageous pranks they play on each other's stores. There's no two ways about it, only one video rental store will remain at the end of the contest.
Written with genuine fondness for such classic 70's and 80's "slobs versus snobs" comedies like Caddyshack, Police Academy and Bachelor Party, Video Town harkens back to a simpler time of renting VHS and Betamax tapes, shoving audio cassettes into the Fierro's Blaupunkt and cruising, making prank calls, Mariachi bands, bounce houses, monster trucks and partying until the crack of dawn. Video Town is a hero's journey filled with heart, gratuitous video store nostalgia and a soundtrack headlined by The Go-Go's, Cheap Trick and Oingo Boingo.
Beck is throwing a Halloween party for the ages and you are invited to the wildest, craziest, most insane fiesta of all time!"
Two days before Halloween, 1987, Video Town owner Stephen Beckerman crosses paths with obnoxious Barnaby Winthrop, the owner of the corporate Showtime Video emporium located directly across the street from "Beck's" little family video shop. They bet to see who rents out five thousand videocassette tapes in forty-eight hours, with the added incentive of five thousand bucks up for grabs. The war is on and both men plot to win through wild promotions and the outrageous pranks they play on each other's stores. There's no two ways about it, only one video rental store will remain at the end of the contest.
Written with genuine fondness for such classic 70's and 80's "slobs versus snobs" comedies like Caddyshack, Police Academy and Bachelor Party, Video Town harkens back to a simpler time of renting VHS and Betamax tapes, shoving audio cassettes into the Fierro's Blaupunkt and cruising, making prank calls, Mariachi bands, bounce houses, monster trucks and partying until the crack of dawn. Video Town is a hero's journey filled with heart, gratuitous video store nostalgia and a soundtrack headlined by The Go-Go's, Cheap Trick and Oingo Boingo.
Beck is throwing a Halloween party for the ages and you are invited to the wildest, craziest, most insane fiesta of all time!"