Say Anything...

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  • Opened April 14, 1989 
  • 1 hr 40 min
  • PG-13
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+. More on child suitability

  • In a charming, critically acclaimed tale of first love, Lloyd (John Cusack), an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane (Ione Skye), an unattainable high-school beauty and straight-A student. It surprises just about everyone when she returns the sentiment. But Diane's overly possessive, divorced father (John Mahoney) doesn't approve and it will take more than the power of love to conquer all. Full synopsis

  • Cast: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney, Lili Taylor, Amy Brooks
  • Director: Cameron Crowe
  • Genres: Romance

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Film Threat
| Brad Laidman

To me, Say Anything is without a shadow of a doubt the most rewarding, funny, and likable romance of the last twenty years. It heralds the decency of romantic love against the gears of a cold, grinding mechanical world. Read full review

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It all comes down to one scene: John Cusack, standing at dusk, boom box aloft, blaring Peter Gabriel's ''In Your Eyes'' outside Ione Skye's window. This, friends, is what rapturous, heartrending, soul-spinning love is all about. Read full review

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

That such intelligence could be contained in a movie that is simultaneously so funny and so entertaining is some kind of a miracle. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Julie Salamon

[Crowe] knows how to shape a scene and he's never cheap with characterization; adults are permitted to be as complex as their children; a rare event in pictures. [18 May 1989, p.A14(E)] Read full review

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John Cusack and Ione Skye in "Say Anything."