Say Anything (1989 First Feature)

The second episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 features our pick for a notable filmmaking debut, Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe and starring John Cusack, Ione Skye and John Mahoney, Say Anything was Crowe’s first feature film as a director, after having previously written the screenplays for Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Wild Life.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/say-anything-1989), Caryn James in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/14/movies/review-film-mismatched-teen-agers-fall-in-love-of-course.html), and Kirk Honeycutt in The Hollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/say-anything-review-1989-movie-994038).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 1989 installment featuring the Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape.