Again, as with The Brave One – and in this case it’s even more bizarre ‘cos i love Cameron Crowe heaps more than Neil Jordan – I really didn’t come to this movie expecting the director’s signature to be such a notable presence. Crowe’s flair for the ethereal seems so honed in more recent projects like Vanilla Sky and Almost Famous that I really didn’t expect much if anything here but an enjoyably superior 80s teen comedy – at worst John Hughes, at best perhaps the same year’s Heathers.

But Crowe is really overwhelmingly present here in his first work as director, perhaps most particularly in the beautifully quirky ending. I don’t think I’ve ever been told “everything’s gonna be alright” in so unexpected a fashion, lol. Then there’s the singing in the car like Jerry Mcguire, the threat of a plane crash from Almost Famous again. Crowe really started as he meant to go on. This has its lulls but for a first movie, for a first viewing, there’s plenty to bring me back. It certainly made more of an impression on me than his last Elizabethtown.

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