‘Shoplifters of the World’ Review: A Sweet but Inauthentic Comedy About the Day the Music Died – IMDb

The story goes that a young Smiths fan was so devastated by news of the bands 1987 breakup that he drove to a Denver radio station with a loaded pistol and a harebrained plan to make the DJ broadcast literary mope-rock all night long. Its a lot easier to say please, please, please let me get what I want with a gun in your hand. Being a Smiths fan, however, our heartbroken hero was too sensitive to point a gun at someone; if meat is murder, then murder would really be murder. So he sat in his car, sang I Know its Over, and turned himself in to the local police station where he could wallow in a cell worthy of his mood.

Based on true intentions (a real uh oh of an opening title card), Stephen Kijaks long-gestating Shoplifters of the World essentially wonders what might

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'Shoplifters of the World' Review: A Sweet but Inauthentic Comedy About the Day the Music Died - IMDb