Singles

Director: Cameron Crowe

1992 / 99min / 35mm

Crowe and company started shooting Singles, his genial, light-touch comedy about the romantic flounderings of a group of scruffy Seattle twentysomethings—the cast includes Bridget Fonda, Matt Dillon, Kyra Sedgwick, and Campbell Scott—in May of 1991, a few months before a little album called Nevermind shot to the top of charts and stayed there, sending every A&R man in America scrambling to book flights to the Pacific Northwest with dreams of digging up the next “grunge” sensation. The result is a remarkable document of a provincial, laid-back, somewhat inbred scene seconds away from being bathed in the blinding media spotlight, featuring cameos by a number of soon-to-be-superstars (Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and, playing Dillon’s Citizen Dick band members, Pearl Jam) and a loaded soundtrack boasting two of Paul Westerberg’s finest post-Replacements songs.

Distributor: Park Circus