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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Anamorphic • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 18 September, 1992 DVD Release : 23 February, 1999 |
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Singles description A romantic comedy set against the background of the Seattle grunge scene of the late '80s and early '90s, Singles contains music and/or cameo appearances by the music groups who defined the movement, including Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, and others. (For a definitive documentary treatment of the same pop-music phenomenon, see Hype!) The plot is really a series of interconnected stories about various Seattle singles--some of who are part of a couple, at least temporarily. Matt Dillon plays a longhaired rocker whose girlfriend (Bridget Fonda) is considering breast enlargement surgery. As Steve and Linda, Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick are going through the awkward stages of a relationship--that point when quirky little traits that may have seemed attractive initially can evolve into major annoyances. It's a funny, sweet, enjoyable picture that captures some of the flavor of the Northwest, where writer-director Cameron Crowe relocated after marrying Seattle native Nancy Wilson of Heart. (The Wilson sisters also appear on the soundtrack as members of The Lovemongers.) Ten years before the release of Singles in 1992, Crowe was the "boy wonder" reporter for Rolling Stone magazine who went back to high school in order to research and write what became Fast Times at Ridgemont High. His other work includes Jerry Maguire (1996) and Say Anything (1989). --Jim Emerson |
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| This movie was made in 1992. I was 27 years old. Three years away from being thirty and I still didn't have a clue about dating. All I know is that I hated it. Watching this movie really made me laugh, but walking out of the theatre I felt like I deserved a cut of the proceeds from this film, because my life was up there on the screen.
Sad, awkward...but surprisingly very funny. Because this movie was at the height of the "Grunge Scene" which, coincidentally enough, lasted about as long as this movie, it does tend to date the film. I can just hear my little grandkids, "You wore a lumberjack shirt, a wooly cap, baggy jean shorts, and construction boots, Grampa? Didn't you live in California? Weren't you hot with all those clothes?" "Yeah, I was hot...but damnit, I was cool..." Yeah, I once was cool. I can never ever return to the land of cool. Oh, I can be stylish. I might also have the possibility of being hip, but I can never be cool again which really doesn't bother me because all uncool people say that to make themselves appear cool. But back to the movie, it is a pretty accurate account of the dating life in the 90s. Maybe this should be considered more of a documentary than entertainment. I don't know what dating is like now. Thank God, I got married. It's a good thing I never dated my wife. She's gonna kill me for saying that. Oh, well...live dangerously. That's what all uncool people say to sound cool. It is a good film and it does have a great soundtrack and sometimes I dust off the construction boots and put on my wooly cap and I hit the mall. Yep, I live life on the edge. I'm a 41 year old trying to get his foot back in the door. Peace and Blessings, everyone... =) |
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