Singles(the movie)

Geralda Gjergjaj

Composition #7, draft#3

Dec 5, 2009

SINGLES

Singles is a Romantic-Comedy movie, released in September 1992 in the United States, and was written by Cameron Crowe. The film follows a group of friends who live in the same apartment building and hang out at the same coffee shop. The central couple is Steve Dunne and Linda Powell. In this movie we have also some other important characters like one crazy boy that he thinks he is the best musician, one girl that she loves the musician guy, a crazy situation. This movie is based on the relationships of the people and how different characters can be friends or couples. My favorite quote from the movie is, “Have fun stay single”.

Linda is the female protagonist of the movie and she works in an environmental office. Her best friend’s name is Ruth and they like going dancing together. Linda and Ruth work together in the same office. One day Linda met a guy named Luis, who helped her on the road because her car was broken. Linda liked Luis a lot and she thought that she was in love with him. Luis was student in the United States, but he was from Spain. He said to Linda that his visa runs out in two days, so he had to leave the United States. When Luis went to Linda’s house to say goodbye, he gave Linda a ring as a promise which meant that he would come back. Linda gave him a garage door opener which meant a lot for her because she was the garage of her house and she always had a space to park her car. Linda was in love with him and she confessed to Ruth that she wanted to marry him. If she marries him, Luis could stay in the United States. Ruth told her that she is crazy because she don’t even know him. One evening Ruth and Linda went out dancing and Linda saw Luis with some random girl at the same club. She felt disappointed because she realized Luis had told her lies about everything. She ran out of the club and she started crying. In this paragraph we saw that “is better to be single” because Linda had a bad experience with Luis. Linda is kind of a quite girl because she saw the man who she was in love with him was many other women. And she didn’t react. She just left and started crying by herself. Have fun, Stay single…

Steve is the male protagonist of the movie. Steve met Linda in a club and he liked her immediately, but Linda wasn’t ready for a relationship or to find another boyfriend because she was still disappointed from Luis. Steve and Linda start hanging out together but not like in a real relationship. They made love and after some weeks they were in a real relationship. Linda had a small conversation with Steve and she told him that she was a little late this month. She was thinking that she might be pregnant. Steve went to the pharmacy and he bought some pregnancy tests to see if Linda was actually pregnant. Linda did the pregnancy test and it turned out that she was pregnant. They didn’t talk much for this situation bat they decide to keep the baby. One day Linda and Steve were in the car and Linda was driving. Suddenly out of nowhere another car came and hit Linda’s side. Steve took Linda to the hospital because she felt dizzy and shocked from the accident. Unfortunately Linda lost her child after the accident. She was in deep sorrow and she decided to go on a cruise by herself to think, relax and gather her thoughts. Linda came back from the cruise after one month, and Steve went to pick her up. Steve and Linda had another little conversation and they decided to break up. They didn’t really want to break up, but I think they were both confused and distant, so they made the mistake. Linda re started an old comfortable relationship with a guy named Andy. Andy is type of the boring man. Steve was so sad all the time that he was away from Linda and he didn’t take care of himself at all and he also lost his job. Until one day Linda went and visits Steve at his house. They immediately start kissing each other. They rekindled their relationship after a long break up. Steve is a great man, because even though Linda went on cruise for one month, Steven was waiting for her. Also Linda told him to break up and she return to Andy, but Steve was in still in love with her. Steve was patient with this relationship because he was really in love with Linda. In this relationship they had fun, but they weren’t single.

Cliff is the funniest character in the movie. He thinks he is the best musician and he also plays in a band, but actually he is a jerk. Cliff had a girlfriend named Janet and Janet was really in love with Cliff, but Cliff was playing with her heart. He didn’t love her. He just wanted to mess around. Janet worked in a coffee shop and she also lived in the same apartment as Cliff. Janet asked Cliff if he liked her breast (because Janet has a small breast) and Cliff said “sometimes”. He said it in a way that Janet decided underage plastic surgery to make her breast bigger than normal. She wanted to do the operation because she thought that if she had a big breast Cliff would love her. Janet made an appointment with Doctor Jamison and she went to do the operation. Doctor Jamison said to Janet her boyfriend should like her the way she is and she looks. She shouldn’t have to change something. Doctor Jamison tried to show Janet that she doesn’t have to change anything because if Cliff doesn’t like her like, she could find someone else who is going to like her, Like the quote says, “there are many fish in the sea”, many men in the world, not only Cliff. After thinking Janet decided to break up with Cliff and after some days Cliff fell in love with Janet. But Janet didn’t want him anymore. Cliff was trying to talk to her all the time going to her house and trying to be in a relationship again with Janet. After some months they started again being together. Before Janet get to Doctor Jamison office she was talking with Steve and she told him that she want a man who she is going to tell her “bless you” when she sneezes. At the end of the movie Janet is in the elevator with Cliff. Janet sneezed and Cliff told her ‘bless you’ and automatically they start kissing each other. It is kind of funny because Cliff it’s not the person who has good manners and Janet got impressed from his good attitude. Have fun, but in a relationship

This movie tells us about different minds, different people, different relationships, and of course different situations. I believe that this movie is true because whatever happened in the movie is the ugly truth of the life. All the characters had a role that most of us have had in our lives and. I believe that the writer did a successful job by writing this movie. The quote “Have fun stay single” I think is a great quote and I believe in this quote. But in this case no one is single at the end of the movie.