A Night at the Roxbury

The Roxbury Guys, Steve and Doug Butabi, want to get into the best club in town, and also hope to open their own club…

• Director: John Fortenberry / Amy Heckerling
• Genre:Comedy
• Runtime:78 minutes

Cast

• Will Ferrell : Steve Butabi
• Chris Kattan : Doug Butabi
• Raquel Gardner : Hat Girl
• Viveca Paulin : Porsche Girl
• Paulette Braxton: Porsche Girl

Wearing rayon suits, Speedo trunks, hair gel and cologne, wealthy Yemenite-American brothers Steve (Will Ferrell) and Doug Butabi (Chris Kattan) enjoy frequenting nightclubs, where they bob their heads in unison to dance music (specifically Haddaway’s hit song “What 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 a fake-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 uses credit card transactions as an excuse to hit on a phone approval operator. They also have an annoying habit of overenthusiastically retelling to everyone they stand in line with their story of how they met Emilio Estevez while waiting in line to use a payphone. Also not amusing to anyone but themselves is a supposed joke in which they “trick” a questioner by answering, “No” before switching to their “real” answer, “Yes.” Walking down to their father’s store, to the beat of “Stayin Alive”, they try to pick a girl (Gina Mari) walking toward them, only to get beaten up by her.

The store shares a wall with a lighting emporium owned by Fred Sanderson (Dwayne Hickman of Dobie Gillis fame). Both 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. Read more

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