Soulful, but not weak, Dobler is an outsider smart enough to know what he doesn’t want.
Here he takes it to the next level.
My review ofSay Anythingafter the jump.
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They sat next to each other at a mall, and he’s in.
Diane is graduating at seventeen.
She’s never really connected with her peers, and is a daddy’s girl.
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Her father James (John Mahoney) runs a nursing home, and dotes on his daughter.
Lloyd asks Diane out and takes her to the big end-of-school party.
She’s charmed, and he’s smitten.
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The two begin dating, but she’s heading to London at the end of summer.
And after they have sex, and Diane tells her dad, they break up.
But James has some demons and he is being investigated by the feds for scamming his patients.
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Will they make it?
It doesn’t matter, they’re kids.
Lloyd’s the guy who has a harem, but no interest in them.
This is still one of my favorite romantic comedies, and it hasn’t aged badly at all.
The earnestness works here, and Cameron hits all the right notes.
In many ways, this is still his zenith.
The film comes with the old DVD commentary, which comes with an introductory ramble (21 min.)
with commentators John Cusack, Ione Skye and Cameron Crowe.
The commentary is breezy fun, with everyone enjoying revisiting the film.
“An Iconic Film Revisited:Say Anything…20 Years Later” (22 min.)
lets the director wax on about the film some more.
“I LoveSay Anything…” (8 min.)
gets comics (like Thomas Lennon and Weird Al Yankovich) to talk about the movie.
All these supplements are new.
From the DVD there’s the five alternate scenes (11 min.)
with three featuring commentary by Crowe, ten deleted scenes (13 min.
), and thirteen extended sequences (25 min.).
There’s also a vintage featurette (7 min.)
