The highlights of this film are the iconic boom box scene and John Cusack’s effortlessly cool presence-apart from that everything else is kind of meandering and ultimately forgettable
Now, if I had a pound for every time I've watched a rom-com set in Seattle with a love interest who has an unnecessarily controlling father when it comes to his daughter’s love life, I’d have two pounds (10 Things I Hate About You and Say Anything), which isn’t a lot, but still, it’s strange that it happened twice in the same week.