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Singles focuses on the lives of young people in their 20s, live in an apartment complex in Seattle, Washington, in the 1990s. It tells about the love affair of two couples, as well as the love life of their friends and colleagues. Janet is a fawning waitress coffee-bar. Cliff is an ambitious but cold rock musician. Linda Powell and Steve Dunne is a couple wavering on whether to commit to each other. And Debbie Hunt, who is trying to find Mr. Right - an ideal romantic lover - doing a video to express her wish.
There's a genial untidiness about Singles, but it's unified by Crowe's affection for his characters, and by the terrific Paul Westerberg music track, which plays like a pulse-beat to these people's lives.
It's like a catalog of everything Crowe had to offer back in the early 1990s, from detailed evocations of place and time to the characters' pronouncements about popular culture.
Crowe's script relies for humor on such puerile notions as the supposed similarity between the words Spam and sperm, and such dullard's epigrams as "It's better to be the dumper than the dumpee."
Crowe doesn't add much to the general discussion, but he's assembled an attractive cast and seems to have a genuine affection for the young people on the screen.
Nobody's saying it's perfect, but it is hugely entertaining, a warm-yet-honest look at sex, love and relationships set against the growth of Seattle's grunge scene.