A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
Pamela Adlon
- Rebecca
- (as Pamela Segall)
Johnny Green
- Luke
- (as John Green Jr.)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaProducer James L. Brooks said the movie was inspired when Brooks saw a man walking with his daughter, and wondered what would happen if the father committed a crime.
- GoofsWhen Lloyd first calls Diane, he gives 555-1342 as his phone number. But when Diane reads the message taken by her father, the number is 555-2342. Even though she has the wrong number written down, it still works.
- Quotes
Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they?
Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
- Crazy creditsThe end credits roll up slowly
- ConnectionsEdited into Saturday Night Live: Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Dave Matthews Band (2009)
- SoundtracksAll For Love
Written by John Bettis and Martin Page
Produced by Richie Zito
Performed by Nancy Wilson
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Featured review
The writing and performances help it rise above the standards of the "80's teen romance" genre
It's graduation day and while Lloyd Dobler has graduated he has yet to speak to the girl of his dreams Diane Court. Meanwhile Diane has a bright future in front of her but yet managed to go through school without really being friends with anyone but her father. When Lloyd finally gets the courage to ask her out she accepts and finds that she enjoys her company and that this is the world she has been missing out on. However will their growing friendship go anywhere with Diane destined for a scholarship in England?
Like many people I knew this film from the famous image of Lloyd holding a ghetto-blaster above his head, but I had never seen the film or known anything about it until recently. The film opens on fairly typical teen territory and I settled in for what I expected (knew?) would bring just what I expected from it. In a way this is what it did do because the basic narrative arch and characters are familiar and it is solid and enjoyable in this regard. However the film is better than the basics would suggest because it has a smart script in Crowe's impressive feature debut. The story has more to it than the romance and in this way it deepens the characters. Of course it is still a teen movie so it is not as deep as all that but it is refreshing different from the majority of the films where the action focuses entirely on the young couple.
With this approach Mahoney works well with a character that has real interest and complexity and his character is much better than I expected as a result. Cusack does equally as well with a gently quirky character with dignity and humour he contrasts well with his peers, most of who are the clichés associated with the genre but are mocked a bit for it. Skye is good but takes a while to get to the good material for the majority she does what the genre requires but is better with better material later on. The support cast features mostly solid performances from a cast of actors on their way to fame Taylor, Piven, Hall and others are surprise finds.
Overall then this is a genre teen romance and is good on that level. However the writing and performances are better than the genre average and make for a much more interesting and engaging film that should be liked by the majority of viewers as long as you don't dislike the genre itself.
Like many people I knew this film from the famous image of Lloyd holding a ghetto-blaster above his head, but I had never seen the film or known anything about it until recently. The film opens on fairly typical teen territory and I settled in for what I expected (knew?) would bring just what I expected from it. In a way this is what it did do because the basic narrative arch and characters are familiar and it is solid and enjoyable in this regard. However the film is better than the basics would suggest because it has a smart script in Crowe's impressive feature debut. The story has more to it than the romance and in this way it deepens the characters. Of course it is still a teen movie so it is not as deep as all that but it is refreshing different from the majority of the films where the action focuses entirely on the young couple.
With this approach Mahoney works well with a character that has real interest and complexity and his character is much better than I expected as a result. Cusack does equally as well with a gently quirky character with dignity and humour he contrasts well with his peers, most of who are the clichés associated with the genre but are mocked a bit for it. Skye is good but takes a while to get to the good material for the majority she does what the genre requires but is better with better material later on. The support cast features mostly solid performances from a cast of actors on their way to fame Taylor, Piven, Hall and others are surprise finds.
Overall then this is a genre teen romance and is good on that level. However the writing and performances are better than the genre average and make for a much more interesting and engaging film that should be liked by the majority of viewers as long as you don't dislike the genre itself.
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- Nov 9, 2006
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- ...Say Anything...
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- Gross US & Canada
- $20,781,385
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,058,496
- Apr 16, 1989
- Gross worldwide
- $21,515,196
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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