Wealthy Yemeni-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 an artificial 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 using credit card transactions as an excuse to hit on a phone approval operator. The store shares a wall with a lighting emporium owned by Fred Sanderson ( Dwayne Hickman). 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.Īfter a day at the beach the brothers decide that tonight is the night they will finally get into the Roxbury.

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