Say Anything...

Say Anything is an easy film to like.

Say Anything was a singularly three-dimensional teen romance after a decade of broad gags and breakfast-club stereotypes in John Hughesland.

Cusack and Skye's relationship develops nicely and believably, but Crowe has not written an entirely convincing character for the latter to play.

Rewarding if slightly off-beat, and genuinely funny.

At last, a teenage love story with real characters instead of cliches, poses, and attitudes.

he love story is as old-fashioned as the jokes are old hat, but Crowe's amusing script and unforced direction allow the actors to develop reasonably authentic characters from stereotypical roles.

A film that examines teens through a fair-minded lens, seeing them as regular people with real-world feelings and their own complexities... And while it still feels very much like a 1980’s movie, it has a grounded human quality that never ages out.

A surprisingly mature teen film about negotiating the transition from teen to adulthood, anchored by a seminal John Cusack performance whose Lloyd Dobler has rightfully become an icon of the genre.

Cameron Crowe’s film helped graduate the ‘80s teen romance into a new level and decades later these are still characters and relationships that carry meaning for all of us and our own insecurities about love and economics.

Even though there are some unexpected leaps in the plot, the emotional genuineness wins out.