Best movie of this year hands down!

Don't Believe the Hype

Better Late Then Never

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

After the success of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything, this movie looks like the next logical step for Cameron Crowe. Exploring the world of dating for 20 somethings in the 90s, this flick works really well by not going down the trodden part of establishing a drama and a solution, but rather letting the narrative flow be determined by the character's lives in a way that doesn't seem forced. With a nice cast of lovable and ratable characters, this makes for a good one time watch, with a nice sprinkling of humour and period pieces. The struggle during making a romcom often is to avoid being cheesy and yet manage to induce a happy feeling in the viewer, which this movie achieves.

Singles stars Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, and Matt Dillon.The movie centers on the lives of a group of young people who are in their 20's and they are living in Seattle,Washington.These people includes Janet,a coffee-bar waitress fawning over Cliff,an aspiring,yet slightly aloof rock musician of a fictional grunge/rock band Citizen Dick;Linda Powell and Steve Dunne, respectively - a couple wavering on whether to commit to each other, and Debbie Hunt, who is trying to find Mr. Right - a man who would make an ideal romantic partner - by making a video to express her desire. The events of the film are set against the backdrop of the early 1990's grunge movement in Seattle.The film also has a number of cameos, including actors Eric Stoltz, Tom Skerritt, Peter Horton, director Tim Burton and the film's author/director, Cameron Crowe. From the musical side of the fence, Singles features appearances by Sub Pop executive Bruce Pavitt, musicians Chris Cornell, Pat DiNizio, Tad, and Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, and Stone Gossard, who play Dillon's backing band, Citizen Dick.Singles is a funny and engaging film.No question that Cameron Crowe had a great screenplay and the direction of the movie was simply great.The soundtrack was also amazing.This is definitely one of the good films ever released in the 90's for it is very smart and witness real people relate to each other about real feelings and using real words.

Cameron Crowe is one of Hollywood's most talented directors who makes the nicest and most heartwarming flicks. This is one of them. Unfortunately, this is his most underrated. I guess one of the reasons why it is underrated is because this is set in Seattle during the Grunge explosion. When everybody had long hair, wore flannel, had ripped jeans, wore fanny-packs and listened to cassette walkmen. I love 90's rock and grunge, so I loved this movie. The Seattle scene makes three ordinary love stories extra cool and fun. Bridget Fonda tries pleasing her rockstar boyfriend, Matt Dillon; Kyra Sedgewick and Campbell Scott contemplate commitment; Sheila Kelley tries video dating to find her perfect man. As I said earlier, the grunge style and music is what sets this apart. Chris Cornell from Soundgarden appears as a mime and later performs with his band; Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard appear as matt Dillon's band mates and Alice In Chains performs at a nightclub. If you don't like grunge, you will at least like the stories. If you like grunge, this is the movie for you.

These are the same humorous stories of neurotic, wounded, gullible, vain, and humiliated people we see and hear fourteen(!) years after this movie came out, but this is an original that's still witty and fresh. Cameron Crowe's thoughtful exploration of single life has universal appeal.Having said that, this movie is also an unabashed love letter to Seattle as well as a portrait in miniature of one the city's heydays: the height of grunge-rock scene.The previously overlooked Seattle suddenly outshone NYC, LA, and SF (if only for a few years) as the coolest city in America, thanks to the mass appeal of local bands like Nirvana, Alice in Chains (who have a performance in the film) and Pearl Jam (who are acting in this film).The city itself becomes a character in the film and even it's famously damp weather couldn't keep it from being seen, through Cameron's eyes, as a terribly romantic and lively place to live in.(Luckily for Seattle it's still seen as a sophisticated metropolis, long after grunge, "Singles", "Frasier", Starbucks, and the novelty surrounding them all faded away.)There's no need for future generations to do any retrospective films about early nineties Seattle; "Singles" is all we need.