A must-see for anyone who entered a record store in the 80's.

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2000)

This movie is witty, insightful and chock full o' great musical references. John Cusack gets the role just right, turning the novel's (pick one) jerk/loser/cad/geek into a sympathetic character. All the characters, in fact, were played to scene-stealing perfection. You'll find yourself making your own top five lists about your life... if you don't do it already. To accompany Cusack's frequent asides to the audience, I would have loved to see a reference to Peter Gabriel's "Your Eyes." My favorite reference that actually occurred was Cusack's wisecrack about Kraftwerk, Falco and Hasselhoff. It easily trumped the same scene in the book.