| Show life in the Nineties Andrew Andrew Ridley Staff Writer FROM the early Fast Times at Ridgemont High to his 1989 directorial debut Say Anything Christian Crowe has long kept his perspective on guys girls and love So in the why shouldn't another sultry up follow-up also entertain for 99 breezy minutes For Fast Times Crowe went undercover to a high school campus to write the book later book later the screenplay screenplay about about jaded teenage life in America However for Singles rated PG 13 for scenes with sexual content Crowe wrote a script where no one was in high school no one graduated and no ones one's virginity was lost The films film's focuses around Seattle's motley rock culture which spawned such groups as Nirvana Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains A few of the films film's brood involve the inept efforts of a computer r dater Sheila Kelly looking for Mr Right but who will settle for Mr Toler Tolerable ble No Singles focuses on a central quartet of apartment neighbors who are friends and occasionally lovers between cups of espresso and Y-chromosome Y music Theres There's the waitress Janet Bridget Fonda sometimes ditsy but often neglected by her boyfriend Matt Dillon Seattle's most dreaded rock-cult rock hero Meanwhile Steve Campbell Scott a traffic engineer meets Linda Kyra Sedgwick an environmentalist who cant can't give up her gas- gas guzzling Ford LTD All four have their moments Fonda manages to be both dense and sophisticated at the same time by considering breast implants to impress neighbor boyfriend Dillon She later realizes that an operation would be selling herself short Next door Scott and Sedgwick who Sedgwick-who who are meant for each other but are often plagued often plagued by Cupids Cupid's rotten arrow- arrow are getting together breaking up and getting back together If the film leaves you wanting more you'll be sorry in the end to see the credits roll |
