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Movie Overview
Cast
• John Cusack
• Ione Skye
• John Mahoney
Director
• Cameron Crowe
MPAA Rating
PG-13
Say Anything (1989)

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OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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2.5/4
""...A post-John Hughes innovator as a teen flick that ducks both Afterschool Special-isms and crass humour...""  Film Freak Central  Bill Chambers

3.5/4
"Say Anything was a singularly three-dimensional teen romance after a decade of broad gags and breakfast-club stereotypes in John Hughesland."  Slant Magazine  Bill Weber

4/5
"Cameron Crowe crafts one of his best films around the end-of-high-school ennui and the uncertainties that come with that time in your life, but Say Anything... is aging faster than you might think, despite its many classic lines and moments."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

3.5/4
"...one of the best movies about young love ever made."  Reel Film Reviews  David Nusair

B+
"Finally, we have a teen film that doesn't dumb down its story line and play it solely as a goofy teen film."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

"Writer and director Cameron Crowe has taken the hackneyed subject of teenage love and given it some freshness."  Spirituality and Practice  Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

3.5/4
"Smart, well-developed characters, believable situations, and a solid emotional investment for us in the film's people and circumstances"  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

4/4
"Crowe's script is honest and straightforward in its simplicity, yet deeply moving in its details and nuances."  Q Network Film Desk  James Kendrick

3/5
"Cameron Crowe's directorial debut gets a fully loaded DVD that demonstrates the best -- and worst -- of all his films."  Netflix  James Rocchi

4/4
"You know that feeling when you're watching a movie for the first time, and it grabs you right away and it gets better and better until the very end? This is one of these very special films."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

"Say Anything does the nearly impossible of making a satisfying film from a high school dating comedy."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

4.5/5
"These are things that are instantly recognizable, images and words that will be remembered as long as movies are remembered."  Goatdog's Movies  Michael W. Phillips, Jr.
OFCS Rating: 100% Fresh
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