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I love this movie. It is so simple. Just an episode from the lives of two girls who have just finished high school. Nothing fancy, nothing spectacular, or unusual. Just a situation that we've all been through, but shown through a different set of eyes.The performances by Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson (hottie), and Steve Buscemi are very good and the story is heart warming and often very funny.Movies like this are seldom and Hollywood tends to make it's films unnecessarily spectacular these days. It sometimes works, but is often quite ridiculous. Think - Michael Bay.This is film is highly recommended to anyone who cares about life. 10/10Rated R: profanity

Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are outsider recent high school grads best friends. They love Bollywood, have eccentric tastes, and can't relate to regular people. They rather make fun of them. They meet weirdo Seymour (Steve Buscemi) and make fun of him. He's socially awkward who collects old vinyls. Enid develops different opinions as she gets to know him while the best friends drift apart.These are absolutely entrancing characters. Not only are they slacker cool, but they are really deep characters. Their relationships are complex and these are great actors. It makes their final resolution that much more poignant and heart-breaking.

Really liked this with a very young Scarlett and Thora interacting with various strange characters and the problems they occur after meeting Steve Buscemi older character. I saw this movie 17 years ago when it first came out and now I watch it it has less fascination now but still great. Birch and Johansson career paths differed in the next 17 years or so, with Johansson becoming a real superstar and Birch slid into obscurity with some terrible movies. I wonder if the old man at the disused bus stop who sat there non stop, I wonder if this was a metaphor for death for him when the bus came and later for Thora Birch character? Maybe she killed herself? Who can say.