Probably Unanswerable Questions
How do these high school kids get into bars on weeknights? How old is Patrick Verona? Why is Julia Stiles a better dancer here than in Save the Last Dance?
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- How these high schoolers get into bars on weeknights, and how old Patrick Verona is, since he could be 19 or 36; he took a year off because his grandfather was sick, and is drinking beer in the open and playing pool at the bar where he is recruited for the job.
- There are a lot of bars for a high school movie, perhaps a Pacific Northwest nod or 16-and-over clubs like the limelight; the Letters to Cleo venue is suspiciously well lit and clean with a Hollywood sheen, and a father who forbids dating would not allow a Tuesday show, though its all-women crowd at Club Skunk might make it a safe space given his stated worries.
- Flagged earlier as an unanswerable question: why Stiles is a much better dancer here than in Save the Last Dance, with tequila offered as the answer.