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Awkward pain is not exactly news in teen movies. John Hughes got it just right in his Brat Pack pictures of the mid-'80s (Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and their kin), and so did the never-to-be-equaled Heathers. Nick & Norah just takes adolescent isolation a step further by ditching the parent figures and leaving the kids to forge their own ethics and agendas on one make-or-break night in Gotham. The plot's twin spurs are that Norah has to keep tabs on her alkie friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) - her nickname is Winehouse - and that...
...Nick's pathetic ardor for Tris has a surface plausibility, since she's been assembled from the used parts of a teen boy's fantasy. With her full mouth, caterpillar eyebrows, Naugahyde breasts and the inspiration, when aroused, to crawl onto a guy's car hood and leave her lipstick imprint on the windshield, she could be this year's Angelina Jolie knockoff. On the downside is her habit of ignoring Nick or, if she notices the guy, humiliating him. ("Can we go straight to laughing about this?" he asks after one abashing incident. That's his cure...
...Much of Nick & Norah was shot on the Lower East Side, a grimy area that Sollett polishes into a wonderland where parking spaces are always available and the street people are genial poets. He has also enlisted stalwarts from Saturday Night Live (Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg) and the Harold & Kumar movies (John Cho). But this film doesn't need the validation of older comics; it's got winning stars in their early 20s who are true both to this moment and to old star quality. In the 1930s, Hollywood had The Thin Man, with the married couple Nick and Nora...
...nicely since playing Catherine Keener's daughter in The 40 Year-Old Virgin three years ago, she has the poise of a privileged child - getting hit on by guys is just an occupational hazard - and is cocooned in her persona. So she's a good match for Nick, who is beyond being embarrassed by driving a battered yellow Yugo that strangers mistake for a taxi or carrying Handi Wipes in his pocket. They also like the same music, which can unite the most disparate souls. The big problem is his devotion to Tris, which baffles Norah ("I could floss with...
...vibrant crowd, and an array of food from around the world. It’s a party that 70,000 people were projected to attend, some for the jazz, some for the revelry. “It started out as a small block party,” Berklee publicist Nick Balkin said. “Now it’s grown into a large block party.” Indeed, the large crowds and abundance of food and entertainment does make the event seem like a street bash in Southie, and originally, it was just that. In 2000, local entrepreneur...