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Summary: Cusack Classic
Review: One of my all time favorite movies. Great characters, great love story. A movie that shows what falling in love should be about. Great soundtrack, Classic scene, Cusack playing Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" over his boom box while standing outside his ex girlfriend's house.
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Summary: Truly captures first love
Review: Lloyd Dobler is one of the most memorable characters in a movie ever. The sweet and touching romance between Lloyd and Diane Court, the unattainable class brain, so realistically captures the ups and downs of first love. John Cusack is perfect as the earnest Lloyd, but the real star is Cameron Crowe's script, filled with great little touches--Lloyd psyching himself up to call Diane, the scene outside the convenience store, and, of course, the boombox scene--and wonderful dialogue--How can you not be touched by: "She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen." Unlike today's throwaway teen movies, this is a teen movie with heart--and staying power.
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Summary: One of my favorite movies from the 80's!
Review: This is a wondeful examination of relationships. First we have the relationship between Diane (Ione Skye) and Lloyd (John Cusack) which is so sweet. Diane is the Valedictorian at the High School as well as the top acheiving student who also took classes in college while still in high school. Lloyd is, well Lloyd is Lloyd. He doesn't have any real plans for the future, but he sure does love kickboxing! He lives with his divorced sister and her son and his parents live abroad because his Dad is in the Military. Lloyd decides that he doesn't want to be like his dad and join the Military, instead he aspires to greatness by asking out Diane to the graduation party of the year! At first Diane has no idea who this guy is, but decides to go with him anyway. It doesn't take long for her to notice that Lloyd is no ordinary guy. Soon they develop a romance that Diane's father is not to excited about. He feels that Lloyd is just a distraction to Diane and that she needs to concentrate on her academic career. Eventually Diane's father drives them apart because he is having financial difficulties and makes Diane choose her loyalties. Once Diane realizes that her father has been lying to her about his problems, she runs to Lloyd for forgiveness. This is a wonderful movie that explores relationships between boyfriend and girlfriend, brother and sister, and child to parent. Would highly recommend this film to anyone. The scene where Lloyd tries to win Diane back by holding a boom box outside her window playing the song that they made love to is so touching and sad it makes me want to yell out to Diane to go out and get Lloyd. A must see for John Cusack fans. Ironically, one of my other favorite movies from the 80s is the Rachel Papers which also stars Ione Skye and is also a sweet romantic film.
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Summary: simply wonderful
Review: Someone actually made a terrific teen movie. It is sweet without ever becoming sappy, insulting, or manipulative. A great flick.
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Summary: Seattle High School Women
Review: This movie is superb. It gave me a view of High School life in Seattle and how to "Go Back". I enjoyed watching Cusack party in my hometown of Seattle and be a keymaster. Kegs in Highschool were great, and this movie took me straight back to the 80's when we used to take off from Roosevelt at 2:15 when the bell rang. On a hot day we used to all get hammered down my 20th street. The only thing they should of had more of was 80's pizza. -Brett Harrel.
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Summary: Here's a rarity--a gentle, civilized teen comedy.
Review: If you're seeking an antidote to "American Pie" or some other incredibly vulgar teen flick, you can't possibly do better than "Say Anything," which balances its robust humor with tenderness and delicacy of feeling. This would be the greatest date movie of all time, if only girls wouldn't punch their boyfriends at the end and say, "Why can't YOU be more like Lloyd Dobler?" As played by John Cusack, Lloyd is probably the most lovable fictional teen since Huckleberry Finn, and Ione Skye, as Diane Court, is equally memorable as the inaccessible dream girl who is really sweet and vulnerable at heart. Add John Mahoney's masterful performance as the overprotective dad who turns out to be a thieving, manipulative liar, as well as the frisky supporting performances of Lili Taylor, Joan Cusack, Eric Stoltz, Loren Dean, Jason Gould and others, and you have one of the great teen romantic comedies of all time. "Say Anything" actually dares to take the feelings of its characters seriously, and to create genuine laughs that arise naturally from the characters.
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Summary: I admit it.
Review: I confess. I'm in my thirties, and I still love this movie! Ifirst saw it when I was about the same age as the main characters, andit has remained one of my favorite movies for over ten years. Everyhigh school character in this movie reminds me of someone I went toschool with, instead of being some dumb teenage cliche. The dialogueis great and actually sounds like real teens talking (at least in1989) - not the overblown garbage that so many writers put in themouths of their teen characters. It's a great movie with someunforgettable scenes: to this day, I cannot hear Peter Gabriel's song"In Your Eyes" without picturing John Cusack holding up a"boom box." Watch the movie - you'll see what I mean.
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Summary: John Cusack
Review: If your not sure what videos to purchase or buy, you cannot go wrong with any of his movies.Mr. Cusack and his writers and co-producers,I feel, are The Three Musketeers of the movie world. His themes are amusing, confused, way out there, tender, and in mamy ways very personal. The Jack Bull on HBO was a great 1800's Manfest Destiny of the little guy vs. those mean old cattle ranchers. During the credits a great Bob Dylan song. He has a great genre' of music. Best wishes to him in 200l. Holiday Blessing.
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Summary: Terrific
Review: I only just saw this movie, for the first time, a few weeks ago. Somehow I missed it when it first came out, although I was 22 at the time and I wish I had seen it... Although I only saw it recently, and must allow my opinions to settle down a little, I strongly suspect that this movie will end up right up there with "Somewhere in Time" on my personal list of all time favorite romantic movies. John Cusack, it goes without saying, is unbelievable as always. I'm not going to dwell on his many virtues here -- chances are, anyone seeing this review is scoping out this movie because they are already a John Cusack fan, or perhaps a Cameron Crowe fan... The female lead, Ione Skye, is just amazing. She's even more beautiful then her name, which is really saying something. Also, I'm a real sucker for terrific voices -- she has a really nice, slightly whispery, mellifluous, relaxing voice that you won't be able to forget. She's also been in "Mindwalk" and "The River's Edge," if anyone wants to see her in other flicks... Anyway, I'm not enough of an expert on movies to be able to say which scenes owe more to the actors, or which owe more to the director, but it just seems to me that they all worked extremely well together. There are five or six scenes here, primarily in the first half of the movie, that you will want to see again and again. They have exactly the right touch, somehow, they never try too hard to be funny, or to be romantic, or to outline the personalities of the characters. This probably means that they actually tried REALLY hard to do all those things, but they just conceal the effort very well. Also, they just add a personal touch in a really memorable way -- you seriously do feel like you are watching real people in a real relationship. It doesn't seem like a movie. Everyone is fully realized. I was a little disappointed at the ending, somehow. Maybe it's because I like John Mahoney (who plays Frazier's dad, Martin, on "Frazier") but the whole thing of him getting nabbed for financial misdoings just didn't sit well with me. It was the only part of the movie that seemed even slightly contrived. Still, the first part of the movie is so fantastic that it more than makes up for any troubles toward the end. An amazing romance story, and one of the few that really feel grounded in human realities. Please check it out.
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Summary: Give me my fiebird keys!!!!!!
Review: If you have ever longed for the girl you thought you couldn't have - then got her - this is your movie. If you want to see one of the best movies of the 80's, this is also your movie. John Cusack is amazing as the endearing Lloyd Dobler. His love interest is the BEAUTIFUL Ione Skye. This movie captures that wonderful but dizzy feeling of leaving high school for a new phase of your life. The things that you find you must leave behind are becoming apparent - so you cling to them with everything you have. Such is the love that Cusack feels for Skye. Add to the mix an overbearing and crooked father and you've got quite a problem. This movie will bring out the romantic in you. See it with the one you love!
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