Complex World (1990)

Genres - Comedy Drama  |   Release Date - Feb 28, 1992 (USA)  |   Run Time - 81 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan

It seems like lately everyone is out to either raze or save the infamous Heartbreak Hotel. This way off-beat rock & roll farce chronicles that struggle. The club features such way-out acts as the Beat Legends, the Young Adults, Roomful of Blues, and NRBQ. The trouble begins when Robert Burgess, the estranged, ultra-conservative, ex-CIA agent father of the club's laid-back owner Jeff Burgess decides to run for president. Believing that his son's involvement in the club will be detrimental to his career, he decides to secretly hire terrorists to blow up the Heartbreak Hotel. The city also wants to destroy the nightspot because it keeps driving down property values in the area. The town fathers end up hiring the Scum of the Earth, a gang of motorcycle thugs, to do their dirty work. Meanwhile, inside the club, Jeff coolly refuses to deal with the terrorist leader. The terrorists soon have their own problems when their ace hit man commits himself to Jesus while waiting outside in the getaway car. While this goes on, a band of Beatles clones are taking drugs in the club cellar when the phone rings. They answer, and it is a holy call from the King himself. He warns them that the club is in grave danger. On video, the film is called It's a Complex World.

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drugs, estrangement, evangelism, family, motorcycle-gang, music, nightclub, offbeat, politician, presidential-candidate, right-wing, rock-club, rock-music, songwriter, strange, terrorism, violence, basement, bomb, club [organization], son