Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 9786305283515 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0790739259 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 23, 1999 Running Time: 99 minutes Sales Rank: 4279 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1992
Description: Bridget Fonda, Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott in an 'exuberant romantic comedy' (Rolling Stone) about Seattle twenty-somethings searching for-and running from-love. Bonus: Two outake scenes. Year: 1992
Amazon.com: A romantic comedy set against the background of the Seattle grunge scene of the late '80s and early '90s, Singles contains music and/or cameo appearances by the music groups who defined the movement, including Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, Screaming Trees, Mother Love Bone, and others. (For a definitive documentary treatment of the same pop-music phenomenon, see Hype!) The plot is really a series of interconnected stories about various Seattle singles--some of who are part of a couple, at least temporarily. Matt Dillon plays a longhaired rocker whose girlfriend (Bridget Fonda) is considering breast enlargement surgery. As Steve and Linda, Campbell Scott and Kyra Sedgwick are going through the awkward stages of a relationship--that point when quirky little traits that may have seemed attractive initially can evolve into major annoyances. It's a funny, sweet, enjoyable picture that captures some of the flavor of the Northwest, where writer-director Cameron Crowe relocated after marrying Seattle native Nancy Wilson of Heart. (The Wilson sisters also appear on the soundtrack as members of The Lovemongers.) Ten years before the release of Singles in 1992, Crowe was the 'boy wonder' reporter for Rolling Stone magazine who went back to high school in order to research and write what became Fast Times at Ridgemont High. His other work includes Jerry Maguire (1996) and Say Anything (1989). --Jim Emerson
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Rating: - A Highlight!!!
Wanna dive into Seattle in the early 90s? Wanna hear some outstanding songs written by incredible bands? Wanna see some good acting? Buy it!!!
Rating: - When grunge ruled the world!
Singles is a film written and directed by Cameron Crowe. This 1992 semi-classic is an interesting movie for its time period, just when grunge and the whole Seattle scene was popular. I just love Matt Dillion and Bridget Fonda's unhealthy relationship in this film, he ignores her for his lame friends and she is a pushover and decides to get breasts implants to entice her man. Fonda's character ultimately comes to her senses and I think she is such an under-rated actress, she is fabulous here. Good but safe film, decide for yourself. Enjoy!
Rating: - Desperation - it's the world's worst cologne
Singles is a film written and directed by Cameron Crowe that somehow falls flat. He has had some really successful films but Singles isn't one of them. It tried to capture the zeitgeist of Generation X, but was such a flop that Reality Bites, which did capture the zeitgeist of Generation X and the decade that nostalgia forgot, the 90's, was forced to change its marketing strategy, Generation X was never mentioned in their press kits thereafter. This bites for Reality Bites, because Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Ben Stiller, and Janeanne Garafalo did manage to capture lightning in a bottle.
But Singles didn't. Ethan Hawke played a much better slacker musician than Matt Dillon. Even the music he played was better. Cliff Poncier, the Seattle Grunge band guitarist portrayed by Dillon, was also pretentious, but in a stupid way. He claimed to be all about his music, but I never believed him for a second. He was ... Read More
Rating: - Eh...
Moments of truth, but more moments of cliche, bad music and less than interesting characters. All the depth of those cheesy writings you used to find on Starbucks tables. A little better than "Reality Bites", but that's not saying much. It'll kill a couple hours.
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