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A Night at the Roxbury movie storyline. Wealthy Yemeni-American brothers Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug Butabi (Chris Kattan) enjoy frequenting nightclubs, where they bob their heads in unison to Eurodance, a subgenre of dance music, and fail miserably at picking up women. Their goal is to party at the Roxbury, a fabled Los Angeles nightclub where they are continually denied entry by a hulking bouncer.
By day, the brothers work at an artificial plant store owned by their wealthy father, Kamehl. 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 flirt with a card approval associate via telephone that he calls “Credit Vixen.” The store shares a wall with a lighting emporium owned by Fred Sanderson. Mr. Butabi and Mr. Sanderson hope that Steve and Emily, 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 night was to be the night they would 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 refuses them access to their BMW car and their cell phones. They are given enormous cell phones by their mother, Barbara, and allowed use of the fake-plant store’s delivery van, but they are immediately rejected once again by the doorman.
A Night at the Roxbury is a 1998 American comedy film based on a recurring skit on television’s long-running Saturday Night Live called “The Roxbury Guys”. Saturday Night Live regulars Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Molly Shannon, Mark McKinney and Colin Quinn star. This film expands on the original Saturday Night Live sketches where the Roxbury Guys were joined by that week’s host, and bobbed their heads to Haddaway’s hit song “What Is Love” while being comically rejected by women at various clubs.
Other roles include Jennifer Coolidge as a police officer, Chazz Palminteri’s uncredited role as gregarious night club impresario Mr. Benny Zadir, and Colin Quinn as his bodyguard Dooey. Ex-SNLer Mark McKinney has a cameo as a priest officiating a wedding.
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)
Directed by: John Fortenberry
Starring: Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Dan Hedaya, Molly Shannon, Richard Grieco, Raquel Gardner, Viveca Paulin, Paulette Braxton, Jennifer Coolidge, Trish Ramish, Loni Anderson
Screenplay by: Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Steve Koren
Production Design by: Steven J. Jordan
Cinematography by: Francis Kenny
Film Editing by: Jay Kamen
Costume Design by: Mona May
Set Decoration by: John Philpott, John Philpotts
Art Direction by: Carl J. Stensel
Music by: David Kitay
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sex related humor, language and some drug content.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: October 2, 1998
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