Singles Reviews and Ratings



  • October 25, 2009
    Love this movie, so funny and could really relate to it when I first saw it. Not sure if a younger person watching it now would like it as much. Maybe one for GenX.
  • October 3, 2009
    Another Cameron Crowe gem, this time in alternative/grunge era Singles. This story centers around a group of people living in the same apartment complex in Seattle. On the height of the grunge movement, it showcases even a live performance of the late Layne Staley of Alice...( read more) In Chains. Everyone, save for Clint (Matt Dillon), didn't look the part for the film. I found Clint to also be the only convincing character here. On top of his fellow bandmates of his band Citizen Dick that are in grunge heavyweights Pearl Jam. Singles deals in love, breakup, work ethics and the thriving music scene of the early 90's. It's a Cameron Crowe film, there had to be music preferences here. Even Chris Cornell, lead singer of late Soundgarden, makes a brief cameo here. Besides a couple of out of place characters, Singles is a great watch.
  • September 21, 2009
    great movie and great soundtrack!
  • September 10, 2009
    romantic comedy starring Kyra Sedgwick, Campbell Scott, Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon. written and directed by Cameron Crowe.

    the film follows a group of single twenty-somethings that live in an apartment complex in Seattle, Washington.

    well-written, great cast and a kickass ...( read more)soundtrack. plus, cameos by Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell and Tim Burton! ♥
  • September 9, 2009
    A lot of Pearl Jam and Kyra from The Closer. =O
  • September 2, 2009
    This movie combines the aspects of any typical romantic comedic but without less cheesy moments with cheesy music with realistic moments with realistic dialogue and kick ass music. The film excels in how it doesn't take itself seriously, possibly in an undertone of how dating sho...( read more)uld be, just trying to have fun without taking it too seriously.
  • August 23, 2009
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  • August 15, 2009
    Simple, entertaining, interesting. I liked it!
  • June 27, 2009
    Welcome to Seattle 1991 where everyone wanted to be the next Kurt Cobain. Sadly the setting is completely irrelevant to the film and seems to be there merely to try and capture a zeitgeist. And so here we have another Cameron Crowe plotless character piece about a bunch of people...( read more) without character who fall in love, fall out of love, say how great it is to be single and say how great it is to be in love. The films only saving grace is a 45 second cameo from the amazing Tim Burton who for 45 seconds makes this film great even though he only says one word. Otherwise, it's nearly as bad as Vanilla Sky
  • June 19, 2009
    This is one of my all time favorite 90's movies. I love this movie. Who would have thought Pearl Jam were actors.
  • June 9, 2009
    a film about a bunch of mid-20 somethings at the point in their lives wondering what they want to do and how to go about relationships. Be aware of Tim Burton's cameo as a singles dating video maker!
  • June 4, 2009
    Pretty decent movie by Cameron Crowe, it really captures the 90's beautifully with the music and clothing. Decent cast as well
  • June 4, 2009
    Tim Burton rondomly playing a shop clerk? It is a good love story.
  • June 1, 2009
    Soundtrack is also fantastic!
  • May 16, 2009
    A pretty good romantic comedy set in Seattle with lots of good actors. You've got Bridget Fonda (who pretty much owns the movie every time she appears), Matt Dillion, Kyra Sedwick, Campbell Scott, Bill Pullman, Eric Stoltz and Jeremy Piven. A great rocking soundtrack plus hilario...( read more)us situations involving the dating scene in the 90's equals an enjoyable movie. Directed by Cameron Crowe so you know it's going to be good.



    Cliff: "Look, Janet you know I see other people still. You do know that don't you?"

    Janet: "You don't fool me."

    Cliff: "Janet, I could not be fooling you less".
  • May 15, 2009
    "God bless You"...still rember the quote...
  • May 10, 2009
    An ok movie but the music in the movie was AMAZING :)
  • April 23, 2009
    In a parallel universe, I would never become immature.
  • April 4, 2009
    Revisiting a classic romantic comedy! Lead lovers Linda and Steve talk and think too much but otherwise this still holds up after all these years. Plus it's fun to see early '90s Seattle before its inevitable slide into high-end gentrification. Food Giant! Pay 'n' Save! Brown and...( read more) yellow Metro buses! Wayne Cody, for god's sake!
  • February 8, 2009
    Clásico de los noventa, nventeros viviendo en un edificio, buena música, eddie vedder
  • January 22, 2009
    the soundtrack is really good and the film has some moments....
  • December 11, 2008
    lived it, why i would i wanna see hollyweird's version of it?!?!
  • December 5, 2008
    i don't know.........sounding interesting
  • November 28, 2008
    Can't believe I hadn't seen this before. Well, okay, I may have and I just don't remember it, as with much of the 90's...
  • November 26, 2008
    I like it! A movie which remember me the amazing grunge. We can see Eddie Vedder and Chris Cornell in this movie too.
  • November 21, 2008
    Campbell Scott! Campbell Scott! Hooray! Enjoyed this film. 90's nostalgia! Liked the dialogue too. A simple film, not shmancy or epic, but enjoyable. Perfect for my state of mind these days.
  • November 15, 2008
    The story of a circle of friends in Seattle during the grunge era of the early 90s and their adventures with dating, work and friendship. Sure, the look is somewhat dated and one has to wonder how people ever thought such clothes looked good on them. The soundtrack, on the other ...( read more)hand, is still one of the finest ever, with timeless bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in chains and Soundgarden appearing in this film that grasps the feeling of that time so perfectly. The acting is great, the dialoges funny and true, the characters real and likable. Cameron Crowe soon after directed in a higher league but already showed his talent here. A movie like a comfortable old blanket you still love after all these years.
  • November 12, 2008
    Review will be written when/if re-watched (Probability: Zero).

    First viewing: 18.02.2003
  • October 19, 2008
    sounds like a great plot
  • September 19, 2008
    A great story and an even better soundtrack
  • September 14, 2008
    As a massive fan of Cameron Crowe i expected a lot from Singles and it delivered in part. You get his usual focus on realtionship but there is less to the surrounding storylines here, it seems a little slack in places but that is also down to the whole slacker feel of the charac...( read more)ters.
  • September 6, 2008
    One of my favorite romantic comedies.
  • July 23, 2008
    Best soundtrack ever.
  • July 17, 2008
    This will bring you right into the Seattle grunge scene of the 90's. Hilarious and great music!!! A great Cameron Crowe movie. The soundtrack is really good!
  • July 13, 2008
    I was expecting this to be something I loved... it isn't. The whole film feels undernurtured, uninspired and dragged out. There are no interesting characters to latch onto and the comedy falls flat more often than not.
  • July 12, 2008
    A movie for the 90's kids, I have to like this movie like my mother likes "Gone with the Wind".
  • July 11, 2008
    Bailey: "Tonight I'll be the super me.
    Steve: What if the super you meets the super her and the super her rejects the super you?
    Bailey: Then it's no problem.
    Steve: Uh-huh. Why?
    Bailey: Because it was never you, it was just an act. I live my life l...( read more)ike a French movie, Steve."

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    A disarmingly clever and sweet-spirited comedy, Singles - Cameron Crowe's second film, three years after Say Anything... - was the first film to put a new spin on the boy-meets-girl formula. When the young romantic couples in this film break up, they don't get mad at each other or indulge in a series of insults and attempts to make their lives miserable. They simply go from being lovers to being friends - and it's often hard to tell the difference. That's what Singles is about: a generation so self-protective it has come to see love as just another style of friendship - as interaction plus cuddling.

    While Say Anything... was arguably the loveliest youth comedy of its decade, full of true, delicate, layered emotionalism, in Singles Crowe expanded his focus to include six characters in their early to mid-'20s, most of whom live in the same horseshoe-shaped apartment complex in Seattle, the new capital of middle-class bohemian chic. The surprise is that Singles is even slighter than Say Anything... was. Crowe may be a director in danger of having too much affection for his characters. He likes them so much, he minimizes their conflicts; he doesn't want to see them hurt. Still, he has such a perceptive eye for detail and a genuine, singular wit. Singles often comes close to being a TV show (Twentysomethings, perhaps), but it's a clever and infectious comedy of manners.

    Honest performances, great writing and a kick-ass soundtrack make this film more than just a romantic comedy about finding true love. Crowe has a unique ability as a writer/director to mix the right song with the right dialogue to create lovely, funny and heartbreaking cinema moments. Kyra Sedgwick, Scott Campbell, Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon are perfectly cast, bringing their own unique touches to characters that could have been clichéd, yet come across as distinctly original. The film is separated into acts, breaking up the two main relationships into the various actions and conversations that either bring the lovers together or tear them apart.

    The Sedgwick/Scott pairing is the more serious, taking their instant attraction onto a bumpy life road neither of them is prepared to deal with. They give the film heart and hope, showing that there really is someone out there for everyone and that sometimes you have to fight for happiness. On the other hand, Fonda and Dillon are the poster children for the old adage opposites attract. He's a wild, womanizing, wannabe rock star; she's a simple, sweet girl who just wants to be loved. When she stops being a doormat and begins to realize her own dreams, she gives him a reason to not only miss her, but respect her as well. Her conversion from desperate to confident is a wonderful example to women everywhere that you don't need a man to be happy with yourself or your life. That her lack of interest eventually turns Dillon into a worthwhile boyfriend stretches belief, but it does make for a happier ending.

    Singles received a fair amount of publicity because of its links to the indigenous Seattle grunge-rock scene. Yet it's far from being any sort of cutting-edge slice of Rock & Roll life. Given its nightclub settings, the film and the characters could have used some more raunch but then again, except for Cliff, they're not meant to be spiky, into-the-night types - they're basically polite, stylish young people. What marks them as '90s bohemians is their casual communalism. They're like overgrown teenagers, blithely exchanging partners as if love were a high school square dance and at the same time, they've grown up in a world where romance is shot through with cynicism and fear. And so they're too wary to let themselves be overwhelmed. Crowe has caught their spirit - the cooled-out passion of those who can long for love without being ruled by it. An intelligent look at relationships that never gets old.

    Besides, you can't go wrong with a film that has Eddie Vedder (in a cameo as one of the members of Cliff's band, "Citizen Dick", along with Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam) and Tim Burton (as a next big Avant-garde director who makes a living shooting dating videos) in it.

    "Somewhere around 25, bizarre becomes immature."
  • June 21, 2008
    This was hugely popular when I was in college. I never understood why. I watched a bit and that was all I could take.
  • June 4, 2008
    In my opinion this might be the first chick flick for guys. It was in the midst of the grunge scene, and where better to have a lost story set during that time than in Seattle?
  • May 31, 2008
    At first I thought this movie was worthless, but I watched it again and it was somewhat entertaining, it actually had a plausible storyline with a dramatic flare.
  • May 19, 2008
    Defining soundtrack of the 90s. Thank you, Seattle! This movie would be forgettable without that music.
  • April 21, 2008
    Good a must own for any collenction.
  • March 28, 2008
    Everyone loved this film, so it can't be that bad? I suspect a conspiracy.
  • March 21, 2008
    a trilha sonora é ótima (como era de se esperar), mas a história é muito "esquecível"... Cameron Crowe já evoluiu muito!
  • March 21, 2008
    every age must have its film ...

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