Singles
Short description
Singles is a romantic comedy set in early 1990s Seattle, where a group of people in their twenties live in the same apartment building and navigate the uncertain territory of work, friendship and love. Janet, a waitress in her early twenties, is drawn to Cliff, the singer of a local rock band, while her former boyfriend Steve has settled into being her friend. Around them, neighbours and co-workers drift in and out of relationships, forming and breaking connections while they try to work out what they want from adult life.
Cameron Crowe wrote, directed and produced the film, which followed his 1989 feature Say Anything... and was succeeded by Jerry Maguire in 1996. The cast includes Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon, Sheila Kelley and Jim True-Frost, with 68 credited performers in total. Music and the city's band scene run through the story, which is built around the lives of its young characters rather than a single central romance.
Released in September 1992, the film took about 18 million dollars worldwide against its studio backing. On IMDb it holds 6.8 out of 10 from around 35,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 449 votes. A critics' rating of 6.9 out of 10 from 53 reviews places professional response slightly above the audience scores recorded on both sites.
What's left behind the scenes
- Famous American musicians Chris Cornell (Soundgarden, Audioslave) and Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard, and Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam) appeared in episodic roles in this film. Before joining Pearl Jam, Gossard and Ament played in the Seattle bands Green River and Mother Love Bone. The inscription “Mother Love Bone” adorns one of the walls of the rock club and is shown in close-up at the beginning of the film. Green River records and posters are pasted in Cliff Puansey’s room.
- Based on an original screenplay that Cameron Crowe wrote in 1984, which was set in Phoenix, Arizona. After the death from an overdose of Andrew Wood (1966-1990), the frontman of Malfunshun and Mother Love Bone, Crowe turned his attention to the behavior of the Seattle music scene and rewrote the script accordingly, moving the setting to Seattle.
- The song "Touch Me, I'm Dick" (literally, "Touch me, I'm a penis") performed by the fictional band Citizen Dick is a parody of the song "Touch Me I’m Sick" by the Seattle band Mudhoney. Also, one of the internal illustrations of the film's soundtrack depicts a table with a Mother Love Bone flyer and a Citizen Dick compact disc. One of the songs on the disc is called "Louder Than Larry," a play on words referencing Soundgarden’s album "Louder Than Love." The name Citizen Dick is a parody of the name of the Seattle band Citizen Sane, named after the 1941 film "Citizen Kane."
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