Classic

Almost twenty years later...

Looking at reviews on the internets this movie seems to be a love it or hate it

I lived in Los Feliz across the street from the Dresden Lounge on Melbourne Avenue around the corner from the Derby on Hillhurst Avenue

This movie perfectly captures everything about the neighborhood & that era

It's p-e-r-f-e-c-t

All my friends wore vintage fifties clothes from thrift stores & were trying to make it in either movies or music -- or both

Some became hugely successful -- you've heard of them --

The rest of us ended up where VV & Jon Favreau's characters Trent & Mikey probably ended up...

Not hugely successful like VV & Jon who both richly deserve their success

Jon is so underrated as a writer & director... & actor. The scenes with the answering machine are brilliant & hilarious...too wonderful

Vince is Vince. What can you say. You can't take your eyes off him. He can do more than play buffoons. He was incredible in Return To Paradise where he had to choose to go back to Indonesia to testify & sacrifice his freedom to save Joaquin Phoenix from execution. VV was brilliant in that, but you never hear much about that movie anymore. Probably too depressing a story. All the actors were outstanding.

Ron Livingston showed his Jimmy Stewart "everyman" charms in this movie far before Office Space.

I am in the camp that loves this movie & consider it a masterpiece.

Great dialogue, great music, great handheld camera, great actors...

A lot of you younger folk on imdB don't realize that technology was very different in 1996. This movie was done on a small budget with many constrictions.

Yet a masterpiece ensued.

Kudos to all.

...& thanks for capturing a wonderful period of life on film...