You're Out of Your League, Cameron Crowe

Rating: 4/10 (28 July 2010)

Writer/director Cameron Crowe let the Oscar he won the previous year for "Almost Famous" go to his head and dives headlong into this narratively ambitious but mostly incomprehensible dream film.
Crowe is out of his element, and in any case he would have needed better actors than Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz to pull this story off. About the best thing that can be said of it is that it has a pretty good title song, which brought Paul McCartney an Oscar nomination.
Diaz generated quite a bit of Oscar buzz herself at the time, but for once the Academy made a wise decision and left her off the short list.
Grade: C-