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==Critical reception==
''Say Anything...'' was well reviewed. 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>▼
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In a less positive review, ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it a "half-baked love story, full of good intentions but uneven in the telling." But, the review also said the film's "[a]ppealing tale of an undirected army brat proving himself worthy of the most exceptional girl in high school elicits a few laughs, plenty of smiles and some genuine feeling."<ref>{{cite web|title=Say Anything...|url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117794651|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=December 31, 1988|access-date=January 13, 2021}}</ref> In a mixed review, Caryn James of ''[[The New York Times]]'' wrote:
<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/1989/04/14/movies/review-film-mismatched-teen-agers-fall-in-love-of-course.html |work=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 14, 1989|access-date=January 13, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116182132/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DE0DB1231F937A25757C0A96F948260|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>
▲The film's [[Rotten Tomatoes]] score is 98% with an average rating of 8.1, and its [[Metacritic]] score is 86. It has a B+ on [[CinemaScore]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Say Anything... (1989) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/say_anything/ |access-date=October 16, 2023 |work=Rotten Tomatoes |publisher=[[Fandango Media|Fandango]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Say Anything... |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/say-anything |access-date=October 16, 2023 |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Say Anything (1989) B+ |url=https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date=20 December 2018 |work=CinemaScore}}</ref>
==Cultural influence==
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