If you're a teenager in 1978 in search of your identity, what do you do? After you've formed your band, I mean? You make plans to see KISS, of course!
The only potential problem is that if one of you has a mother who doesn't like KISS, and thinks that the band is nothing more than an acronym for "Knights in Satans Service", then sets fire to your tickets before sending you off to boarding school the very day of the concert, you may have a tough time getting to the show.
In that case, you may have to steal a car and win four tickets on a radio call-in show during study hall. Then you're in. So once you get the car and break your unlucky friend out of his new school using some psychedelic pizza, you hit the road for your ultimate destination - Detroit, in order to pick up your tickets.
After a brush with some disco dancers along the highway, you make it there and find out... you don't have tickets after all. The moron in the band who was responsible for winning (which he actually did just fine) forgot to give his name before he hung up the phone, so the station had to give the tickets to the next caller. So the quartet splits up to see if they can score tickets.
Lex (Giuseppe Andrews) tries to break into the concert, and is doing well until he gets spotted by security, at which point he starts running and causes all sorts of damage to the place, and eventually gets tossed.
Trip (James DeBello), the moron in question, decides to beat up a little kid and steal his ticket, picks on the wrong kid and ends up getting beat up himself by the kid's older brother and his friends.
Hawk (Edward Furlong) tries a scalper, but comes up short, so he joins an amateur strip show, where he hopes to win $100 to buy the ticket. He doesn't win, but he does meet up with Ron Jeremy, who is the MC of the show, and Shannon Tweed, who pays him for his "services" after the show. Unfortunately the scalper has already sold the ticket by the time he gets done.
Jam (Sam Huntington) starts to look for his ticket and finds his mom - the one who burnt the original tickets - is leading a rally against KISS and she spots him and takes him to confession before he can get away. There he meets up with Beth (Melanie Lynskey of Two and a Half Men), and he loses his virginity to her in the confessional. Guess that plan backfired.
The guys meet up again later, find out that they still have no tickets and decide to beat each other up and try to get the box office to give them replacements. They are just about to be turned away when Trip spots the kid and the older brother who beat him up (and took his wallet) so he identifies them as the assailants, and since they have his wallet, the guys get their tickets, and they get tossed. Probably not a very good moral, and not the best plan, but they do get to see the show.
Rated R for strong language, drug use and sex-related content.
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