Warm and sad

Rating: 5/10 (16 April 2001)

As a music obsessed 25 year old single male..this film is aimed right at my consciousness! And it mostly hit the mark. Extra points for Stereolab obscurities, Belle & Sebastian album tracks and The Beta Band (even if only 20 seconds!).
Seriously, this is a warm but sad tale of an anal but well intentioned record store owner who has been through a series of failed relationships and is trying to analyse what is wrong with him. This analysis is going on on the back of a split up with Laura, who is No.5 in his all-time hardest break-ups list (I told you he was anal!).
John Cusack and the whole cast are excellent, the characters well observed, the script full of laughs and emotion. I haven't read the book so I can't judge it against that, but I would recommend the film to anyone, but especially post youth music obsessed folk.
8/10.