It's easy to like these characters, and care about them." Tim Appelo wrote in Entertainment Weekly, "With. But I found myself smiling a lot during the movie, sometimes with amusement, sometimes with recognition. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times was complimentary, giving Singles three out of four stars and declaring it "is not a great cutting-edge movie, and parts of it may be too whimsical and disorganized for audiences raised on cause-and-effect plots. The site's critical consensus reads "Smart, funny, and engagingly scruffy, Singles is a clear-eyed look at modern romance that doubles as a credible grunge-era time capsule". Singles holds a 79% critical approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 52 reviews with an average rating of 7/10. One of the songs is called "Louder Than Larry (Steiner)", a wordplay on the Soundgarden album, Louder Than Love. On the inside cover photo of the soundtrack, there is a Citizen Dick CD with the track listing on the CD itself. Citizen Dick's song "Touch Me, I'm Dick" is a parody of the song " Touch Me, I'm Sick" by the Seattle band Mudhoney. An early acoustic version of the song was created and can be heard in the background during a scene of the film. Chris Cornell took it as a challenge to write songs for the film using those titles, and " Spoonman" was one of them. During the making of the film, Ament produced a list of song titles for the fictional band, Citizen Dick.
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Most of Matt Dillon's wardrobe in the movie actually belonged to Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament. The apartment building that was used as the main set for Singles. Also, Soundgarden makes an appearance in the film. Alice in Chains' concert was filmed at the Desoto nightclub. Additional concert footage was shot in the now-defunct RKCNDY bar. The apartment building is located on the northwest corner of the intersection of E Thomas St & 19th Ave E.
The central coffee shop featured in the film is the now-closed OK Hotel. The film was shot at a number of locations around Seattle and includes scenes at Gas Works Park, Capitol Hill, Jimi Hendrix's original grave at Greenwood Memorial Park in Renton and Pike Place Market. Principal photography wrapped on May 24, 1991. Production įilming began on March 11, 1991. Johnny Depp was offered the role of Steve Dunne but declined. There are appearances from Alice in Chains and Soundgarden, as well as cameos by film director Tim Burton, and basketball player Xavier McDaniel as himself. Right.Įddie Vedder, Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament play the band members of Citizen Dick. The film revolves around Janet Livermore (Bridget Fonda), a coffee-bar waitress fawning over Cliff Poncier (Matt Dillon), an aspiring, yet slightly aloof grunge rock musician of the fictional grunge/rock band Citizen Dick (which features members of the real-life grunge group Pearl Jam), Linda Powell (Kyra Sedgwick) and Steve Dunne (Campbell Scott), a couple wavering on whether to commit to each other, and Debbie Hunt (Sheila Kelley), who is trying to find Mr. Divided into chapters, the film focuses on the course of two couples' rocky romances, as well as the love lives of their friends and associates. Most of the characters dwell in an apartment block, a sign in front of which advertises "Singles" (single bedroom apartments) for rent. Singles centers on the precarious romantic lives of a group of young Gen X'ers in Seattle, Washington at the height of the 1990s grunge phenomenon.