Sep 19, 2003 05:35 PM
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(Updated Sep 19, 2003 05:35 PM)
Some lines I remember from the flick:
Answering Machine: At the beep, please leave your name, number and a brief justification of the ontological necessity of modern man's existential dilemma and we'll get back to you.
Lelaina: Hey Sammy, what's your goal?
Sammy: My goal is... I'd like a career of something.
Vicky: He’s weird. He’s strange. He’s sloppy. He’s a total nightmare for women...
I can’t believe I haven’t slept with him yet.
Troy: The only thing you have to be by the age of 23 is yourself.
Lelaina: Yeah, well, I'm not sure who that is anymore.
Lelaina: You've been waiting for this since the day we met.
Vickie: Oh, who told you that? Your psychic partner?!
Lelaina: Are you religious?
Michael: Um, uh, I guess uh, I guess I'm, uh a non-practicing Jew.
Lelaina: Hey, I'm a non-practicing virgin.
The film stars Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke and Ben Stiller in a 90’s serious comedy
Lelaina Pierce (Winona Ryder) faces life after college, using a video documentary about her confused and drifting friends to advance her ambitions in the entertainment industry. When a video executive (Ben Stiller, also making his directorial debut) becomes romantically interested in her, she is forced to choose between her slacker boyfriend (Ethan Hawke) and the big cruel world of adulthood lurking ahead.
Following college graduation, four close friends - Lelaina Pierce, Troy Dyer, Vicki and Sammy are still hanging out with each other. In fact, after Troy loses his job and moves in with Lelaina and Vicki, three of them are living together. It's life without a direction, however. Vicki is working at the Gap, Troy is unemployed after being fired from his twelfth job, and Lelaina is on the slow track working for a local morning television show. Their personal lives are no less settled, with the promiscuous Vicki obsessed with getting AIDS, and Lelaina trying to choose romantically between best friend Troy and an MTV-type station manager yuppie named Michael Grates (Ben Stiller).
Winona Ryder turns in a strong performance. Baby I love your way by big Mountain and Stay by Lisa Leob are some amazing sound tracks.
The movie imparts me some kinda feeling in me which makes me see it again and again…this is a must-see for all you people who haven’t seen it.
