Flashback Friday – Say Anything

Tomorrow is Ione Skye’s 39th birthday. And while I can take some comfort in the fact that I’m younger than she is, John Cusack never held a boom box up to my window. Ione Skye wins.

Seriously, who didn’t want to be Diane Court? “Say Anything” was the teen romance movie that was real enough that we could actually picture ourselves as its heroine, whether we were valedictorian material or not. A cool, witty guy who’s hell bent on getting to know the beautiful, reserved intellectual? Totally dreamy. Plus, it’s got that whole daddy’s girl angle so many of us struggled with in adolescence: Please Daddy, or please ourselves.

Also, I would totally do it in a car with John Cusack whether my father approved or not.

Another reason “Say Anything” is timeless — it’s so quotable. I routinely tell my kids, “You must chill!” which I freely admit to stealing from this movie. I still love that bought-sold-processed explanation, even though I can never keep it straight. The dialogue between Lloyd and Diane is a little over the top at times — dudes, you’re in high school — but they’ve nailed the teen-angst, no-perspective angle that we all remember, if reluctantly.

Happy birthday, Ione. You may have had John Cusack, but you’re still older (okay, and prettier) than me.

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Julie still wants a guy to hold a boom box up to her window.