Great in countless ways

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2009)

This movie is so great there is very little suspension of disbelief to engage in, if any. So well written and acted that it could be passed off as reality . Setting this story in 70's Philadelphia is absolute genius. Some of the set locations are so bleak and hopeless that if I was Rocky I wouldn't even get out of bed no matter how bad the apartment stinks. I wish I had written the scene where he asks Adrian to go to the basketball game. She gives no answer and he immediately changes the subject and acts like it never happened. What guy cannot relate to that? And how can an actress so completely embody nerdiness and hotness in one character? Definitely on the very short list of NO BRAINER great films.