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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...
...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 for a broken heart: instant irony.) Tris is pretty catty to Norah as well. That's why Norah sidles up to Nick, at random, asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes and gives him a kiss it'll be hard to shake...
...received a vision of what life has in store for him, and it worries him sick. He seems prematurely 40, so that any teen trauma has the impact of a midlife crisis or some awful dream endlessly repeating itself. As Nick O'Leary in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, he's the theoretically cool bass player in a band playing a Manhattan club. Except that the band is called the Jerk Offs, the other two members are gay, their audience includes blas members of Nick's New Jersey high school, and one of them is Tris (Alexis Dziena), the girl...
...Lorene Scafaria, from a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, is that spending a night in New York City can crack the shell of stereotype to reveal your utterly cool inner life to someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that would be Norah Silverberg (Kat Dennings), whose top-girl hauteur masks her discontent with every punk-star wannabe who wants a recording contract with her music-producer father. She doesn't need leeches; she wants a boyfriend. Just not the quiet, doomed bassist in a queercore band...
Given that Norah Jones has the lead in “My Blueberry Nights,” it’s not surprising that the movie opens with one of her songs, “The Story.” Jones plays Lizzie, a young woman who, after a bad break-up, takes off on a road trip to find herself and in the process meets a series of people whose stories are even more hopeless than her own. As the lyrics of the opening song suggest, “the stories have all been told before...