Comedy · Drama
Band on the Run
A race against time became the time of their lives.
At the height of the Detroit Garage Rock movement in 1999, a wheelchair-bound father, his musician son and his band bond on a raucous road trip as they war with a rival band on the way to the South by Southwest festival.
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The Fixate & Binge Podcast, w/ Joe Curdy
8/107/29/2026
Perhaps the best example of a Detroit, Michigan band who personified the Detroit Garage Rock scene at the end of the 1990s are The White Stripes -- but alongside Jack & Meg White remain so many other rock bands of the moment with dreams of making it big. **BAND ON THE RUN**, by writer/director Jeff Hupp is a nostalgic glimpse of the late 1990s Detroit Garage Rock movement centered around a rock trio Hot Freaks, led by their drummer Jesse Grant, played by Matthew Perl. With dreams of escaping his uninspiring job working at an Ad Agency (an inside joke by Hupp who got his own start working in advertising) -- Jesse marshals his bandmates Maxime (Daniel Blair), and Cody (Dylan Randazzo) to seize a unique moment in the Detroit Garage Rock scene before their window closes, dooming them to
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