Young love and true -- like, totally and completely. The sentiment is somewhat undermined by the casting of John Cusack, who either is the world's most insincere person or else had the misfortune to be born with the world's most traitorous eyebrows. (His too-advanced age is no help, either.) And Ione Skye seems to have not yet gotten over her head cold. Still, if only (or primarily) for the role of her doting but laissez-faire father (John Mahoney), it's a cut above the average Eighties youth movie. A cut above the John Hughes youth movie, too. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe. (1989) — Duncan Shepherd
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