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PAGE 12, OCTOBER 13, 2008, THE ISLANDER
“Goin* to
the Show...”
with...
Roland
Willis
NICK AND NORAH'S
INFINITE PLAYLIST
Starring: Michael Cera, Kat Dennings,
Ari Graynor & Alexis Dziena
Directed by Peter Sollett
Written by Lorene Scafaria
Based on a novel by Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
Running Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes
Rated PG-13 - alcohol abuse and sex
Don’t quite get the title! Nick and
Norah's Infinite Playlist is a sweet
falling-in-love story that takes place
as Nick and Norah bounce around
the New York City club scene for
about eight hours one night. Cer
tainly this would feel like infinity
to me and maybe the authors of the
2008 novel, Rachel Cohn and David
Levithan, felt the same way.
The movie starts with Nick, played
by Michael Cera with the same wide-
eyed innocence he projected opposite
Ellen Page in Juno, looking forlornly
at the pictures of his ex-girlfriend,
Tris, hanging all over his bedroom
wall.
She has dumped him but as the
song goes, “He’s got it bad and that
ain’t good.”
Depressed and hiding in his bed
room, he is pulled out of his lethargy
by his gay pals, Thom (Aaron Yoo)
and Dev (Ravi Gafron).
Together they form the band, The
Jerk-Offs, and Nick is shamed into
joining them for a gig that Friday
night.
Norah (Kat Dennings), her best
friend Caroline (Ari Graynor), Tris
(Alexis Dziena) and Nick are college-
bound high school seniors. Norah
can’t stand how Tris flaunts her cur
rent boyfriend in front of the heart
broken Nick. However, Norah’s feel
ings for Nick go way beyond sympa
thy as she devours him hungrily with
her eyes whenever they meet.
Anyway, Norah and Caroline go
out that Friday night to a club where
The Jerk-Offs happen to be playing.
Caroline gets drunk and Norah and
Nick try to take her home in his little
red Yugo.
Yes, that’s a Yugo! How nerdy can
Nick possibly get?
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Somehow she escapes and the
Nick, Norah and the boys run around
the City looking for her, checking the
clubs she likes to visit and her favor
ite throw-up spots.
Ari Graynor is pretty funny as
Caroline and in a sequence reminis
cent of Ewan Macgregor’s encounter
with the filthiest toilet in Scotland in
Trainspotting, Caroline goes fishing
in the filthiest toilet in Penn Sta
tion.
After many adventures, our heroes
finally catch up with Caroline on the
stage of a gay cabaret.
Throughout the night, Nick finally
notices Norah, a knock-out, volup
tuous beauty, and they fall in love.
Of course, Tris is not about to give
up on one of her victims and she fol
lows them around on their search for
Caroline.
Catching Nick alone she tries to
set the hook again and almost suc
ceeds when she does a lap dance on
the hood of his Yugo to ‘You Sexy
Thing” by the Hot Chocolates.
The rest of the sound track sounds
pretty interesting.
This sweet, humorous movie is
well directed by Peter Sollett (Rais
ing Victor Vargas, Five Feet High and
Rising) and he makes the night scene
in the City intriguing and exciting to
the young.
The 20-year-old Canadian actor
Michael Cera continues his run of
successful coming-of-age movies
{Juno, Superhad).
Kat Dennings who played Cath
erine Keener’s daughter in The 40-
Year Old Virgin and the multi-pierced
Goth in House Bunny, is a rising star
and is perfectly cast in this film
Dennings and Cera make a ter
minally cute, lovable couple and are
responsible for the popularity that
this movie is bound to enjoy.
The young at heart will love this
movie. My rating is B. □
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