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{{Short description|1989 American teen romantic comedy-drama film}}
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{{Other uses|Say Anything (disambiguation)}}
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| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $16 million<ref>
| gross = $20.7 million<ref>
'''''Say Anything...''''' is a 1989 American [[teen film|teen]] [[romantic film|romantic]] [[comedy drama film]] written and directed by [[Cameron Crowe]] (in his feature directorial debut). The film follows the romance between Lloyd Dobler ([[John Cusack]]), an average student, and Diane Court ([[Ione Skye]]), the class [[valedictorian]], immediately after their graduation from high school.
''Say Anything...'' was theatrically released in the United States on April 14, 1989, by [[20th Century Fox]]. The film received highly positive reviews from critics. In 2002, ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' ranked ''Say Anything...'' as the greatest modern movie romance, and it was ranked number 11 on ''Entertainment Weekly''{{'s}} list of the 50 best high school movies.<ref>{{cite
==Plot==
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* [[Lois Chiles]] as Diane's mother (uncredited)
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[[Jennifer Connelly]] and Ione Skye vied for the role of Diane Court, but Skye was cast. [[Robert Downey Jr.]] was offered the role of Lloyd Dobler, but turned it down.<ref>[https://www.howardstern.com/show/2016/05/04/robert-downey-jr-previously-howard-stern-show/ The Howard Stern Show]</ref> [[Christian Slater]] and [[Kirk Cameron]] were also considered for the role.<ref>[https://www.indiewire.com/2012/04/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-say-anything-252505/ Five Things You Might Not Know About 'Say Anything . .']</ref> [[Dick Van Dyke]] and [[Richard Dreyfuss]] were considered for the role of Jim Court.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2019/05/say-anything-cast-reunites-at-tribeca-film-festival.html|title=We've Been Mispronouncing Lloyd Dobler's Name from Say Anything This Whole Time|date=May 2019}}</ref>▼
==Caating==
▲[[Jennifer Connelly]] and Ione Skye vied for the role of Diane Court, but Skye was cast. [[Robert Downey Jr.]] was offered the role of Lloyd Dobler, but turned it down.<ref>
==Soundtrack==
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Giving the film four stars out of four, ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' film critic [[Roger Ebert]] called ''Say Anything...'' "one of the best films of the year—a film that is really about something, that cares deeply about the issues it contains—and yet it also works wonderfully as a funny, warmhearted romantic comedy."<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=Say Anything|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/say-anything-1989|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|publisher=Ebert Digital LLC|date=April 14, 1989|access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref> He later included it in his 2002 Great Movie list, writing, "''Say Anything'' exists entirely in a real world, is not a fantasy or a pious parable, has characters who we sort of recognize, and is directed with care for the human feelings involved."<ref>{{cite web|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|title=Great Movie: Say Anything|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-say-anything-1989|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|publisher=Ebert Digital LLC|date=February 17, 2002|access-date=January 13, 2017}}</ref>
<blockquote>[The film] resembles a first-rate production of a children's story. Its sense of parents and the summer after high school is myopic, presented totally from the teenagers' point of view. Yet its melodrama—Will Dad go to prison? Will Diane go to England?—distorts that perspective, so the film doesn't have much to offer an actual adult, not even a sense of what it's truly like to be just out of high school these days. The film is all charming performances and grace notes, but there are plenty of worse things to be.<ref>{{cite web|first=Caryn|last=James|title=Mismatched Teen-Agers Fall in Love, Of Course|url= https://www.nytimes.com/
==Cultural influence==
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"That scene is like Romeo under the trellis," said Crowe reminiscing about the iconic scene. "But I have this feeling when I watch it that it's filled with double emotion – both with the story and the actors, whose own trepidation bleeds in."{{cn|date=September 2023}}
In a September 2012 interview with ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', discussing the 25th anniversary of ''[[So (album)|So]]'' (from which "In Your Eyes" hails), Gabriel commented on the cultural impact of the scene, "It definitely gave [the song] a second life, because now it's so often parodied in comedy shows and it is one of the modern day ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' balcony clichés. I've talked to [[John Cusack]] about that. We're sort of trapped together in a minuscule moment of contemporary culture."<ref>
At a concert in [[Madison Square Garden]] on September 18, 2023 (touring his album ''[[I/O (Peter Gabriel album)|I/O]])'', Gabriel held up an inflatable toy boombox during a performance of "In Your Eyes," reported as "a nod to Lloyd Dobler."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/peter-gabriel-brought-the-moon-to-madison-square-garden-pics-setlist-video/|title=Peter Gabriel brought the moon to Madison Square Garden
==Canceled TV series==
A television series based on the movie was planned by [[NBC]] and [[20th Century Fox]], but producers Aaron Kaplan and Justin Adler did not know that Crowe had not approved of the project. When they found out his views, the show was dropped.<ref>{{cite news|title=Celebrity Extra (October 23, 2014)|last=Elavsky|first=Cindy|work=Florida Weekly|publisher=[[King Features]]|date=October 23, 2014|url=https://naples.floridaweekly.com/articles/celebrity-extra-38/|access-date=October 23, 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024230911/http://naples.floridaweekly.com/news/2014-10-23/Arts_%28and%29_Entertainment_News/CELEBRITY_EXTRA.html|archive-date=October 24, 2014}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:American teen comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:American teen romance films]]
[[Category:Coming-of-age romance films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Cameron Crowe]]
[[Category:Films produced by James L. Brooks]]
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