Singles
1992, Romance, 1h 39m
52 Reviews 10,000+ RatingsWhat to know
Smart, funny, and engagingly scruffy, Singles is a clear-eyed look at modern romance that doubles as a credible grunge-era time capsule. Read critic reviews
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Janet Livermore
Cliff Poncier (Citizen Dick vocalist)
Steve Dunne
Linda Powell
Debbie Hunt
David Bailey
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Critic Reviews for Singles
All Critics (52) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (11)
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It's like a catalog of everything Crowe had to offer back in the early 1990s, from detailed evocations of place and time to the characters' pronouncements about popular culture.
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This is one happy-ending romance that doesn't feel forced. You can't help getting into the spirit of it.
May 19, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
This is romantic comedy of the wispiest kind, but the picture is generous, graceful, and consistently funny.
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There's a genial untidiness about Singles, but it's unified by Crowe's affection for his characters, and by the terrific Paul Westerberg music track, which plays like a pulse-beat to these people's lives.
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There is something new here, and very fresh.
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Crowe doesn't add much to the general discussion, but he's assembled an attractive cast and seems to have a genuine affection for the young people on the screen.
May 19, 2014 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Singles
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Aug 27, 2015Rather than say 'Aloha' to Cameron Crowe's prodigious talents ebbing and flowing in dodgy waters, check out a 1992 gem by this writer-director that winningly captures grunge and knowingly looks grungy while doing it. Someway somehow, Crowe - the Rolling Stone reporter who brilliantly documents a fan's-eye-view of '70s rock 'n' roll right from the trenches of his own young adult experience with Almost Famous - shows up right as grunge is being conceived and provides a series of bitingly truthful love stories that just happen to perfectly document an important time in music history. You know how Forrest Gump pops up at just the right times throughout U.S. history to make his mark and provide us with a wink and nod lesson? Well, Cameron Crowe does the same for rock history without playing Zelig ... at least he did before becoming too sentimental with projects like Elizabethtown, We Bought a Zoo and the aforementioned Aloha. With Singles, he provides a hip, vervy portrait of the influential '90s Seattle scene that's far from a love letter - it's a full-on time capsule. It's not like Titanic where a flimsy love story got framed around a disaster. These relationships happen organically and Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains just happen to be in the background. In this PG-13-rated dramedy, a group of twenty-something friends (Fonda, Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon), most of whom live in the same apartment complex, search for love and success in grunge-era Seattle. Though the story doesn't boast as much character as Crowe's '80s youth-defining work in Say Anything and the dialogue doesn't ring as resonantly as with his much more polished '90s rom-com masterwork Jerry Maguire, Singles' acting and setting provide a whipsmart and smart-ass look at a semi-modern romance. Plus, you get to see a Point of No Return-era Bridget Fonda, Dead Again-era Campbell Scott, Born on the Fourth of July-era Kyra Sedgwick, and Drugstore Cowboy-era Matt Dillon giving it their youthful all before taking on some more career-defining adult roles. Best of all, there's that soundtrack. Pearl Jam's "State of Love and Trust" - released exclusively for the motion picture - ranks among the band's best works. Bottom line: Grunge MatchJeff B Super Reviewer
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Sep 06, 2010I caught this on TV one day a long time ago, I thought it was pretty boring. I only watched it for the cameo from Tim Burton, which was cool, but the rest of the movie wasn't anything special. Overall, it's okay.Aj V Super Reviewer
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Oct 20, 2009Love this movie, so funny and could really relate to it when I first saw it. Not sure if a younger person watching it now would like it as much. Maybe one for GenX.Nicki M Super Reviewer
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Sep 21, 2009great movie and great soundtrack!~Lissa~ Super Reviewer
Singles Quotes
| Steve Dunne: | My dad left home when I was eight. You know what he said to me? "Have fun, stay single." I was EIGHT. |
| Steve Dunne: | My dad left home when I was eight. You know what he said to me? 'Have fun, stay single.' I was EIGHT. |
| Cliff Poncier: | (after Janet fakes a sneeze to get his attention) Hey, babe? Don't get me sick; I'm playing this weekend. |
| Cliff Poncier: | [after Janet fakes a sneeze to get his attention] Hey, babe? Don't get me sick; I'm playing this weekend. |
| Debbie Hunt: | Desperation - it's the world's worst cologne. |
| Cliff Poncier: | You know Janet, I see other people, right? |
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