Singles (film)
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Singles (1992) is a film set in Seattle, written and directed by Cameron Crowe.
Starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, and Matt Dillon, it focuses on the course of two couples' rocky romances, as well as the love lives of their friends and associates. It centers around the lives of a group of young people living in an apartment block, and is divided into chapters. Cameron Crowe wrote the part of Janet Livermore specifically for Bridget Fonda to play. The events of the film were set against the backdrop of Seattle and the grunge movement in the city.
The Singles soundtrack included music and the film included cameos from key bands from the Seattle music scene of the time, such as Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and grunge favorite, Tad Doyle (lead vocalist of the Seattle bands Tad and Hog Molly). The soundtrack is sometimes considered to have helped open the door to the explosive popularity of Seattle grunge music in the early 1990's, although Nirvana had their main success a year earlier with the multiplatinum record Nevermind. Ironically, Nirvana was the only major grunge band of the time to not appear on the soundtrack. Paul Westerberg of the Replacements contributed two songs, as well as scoring the soundtrack. (some would say the Replacements' music is one of the precursers to, and originators of "grunge") The success of and buzz around the film's soundtrack largely eclipsed the film itself, which was neither as commercially nor as critically successful as either Crowe's previous film, Say Anything, or his next film, Jerry Maguire.
Trivia
- While completed in early 1991, the film was not released until September 1992. Warner Bros. didn't know what to do with the film, but after grunge exploded, the movie was finally released.
- The film was shot at a number of locations around Seattle, and includes scenes at Gas Works Park, Capitol Hill, Jimi Hendrix's grave at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton and Pike Place Market. The central coffee shop featured in the film is the now demolished OK Hotel.
- Chris Cornell has a cameo as the guy who comes out to listen to a car radio. He also appears in an earlier scene with his band Soundgarden performing the song "Birth Ritual" (the studio version of that song, as well as Chris' solo song "Seasons" appear on the soundtrack)
- Cameron Crowe himself has a cameo as a club interviewer.
- Stone Gossard, Jeff Ament, and Eddie Vedder (all members of the band Pearl Jam, although when filming began they were still called Mookie Blaylock) have small parts as members of Cliff's band Citizen Dick. Pearl Jam also has two songs on the soundtrack.
- Citizen Dick's song name "Touch Me, I'm Dick" is a pun on the song "Touch Me, I'm Sick" by the Seattle band Mudhoney.
- There are blink-and-you'll-miss-them appearances from Alias star Victor Garber, Paul Giamatti (in one of his first film appearances) and Jeremy Piven. Eric Stoltz (whom Crowe has said is in all of his films) plays the loud mouthed mime.
- Several of the film's main characters live in the same apartment complex. Although of minor importance in the film, the setting inspired elements of the similarly Generation X-themed television series Friends.
See also
- ''Reality Bites, film
- ''S.F.W., film
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