Producer review
Favorite young-adult ensemble; questions about garages, strangers’ rides and answering machines
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- Singles joins Kicking and Screaming as a favorite early-twenties ensemble movie for a viewer born two years after its release.
- The garage-opener gift raises questions about regional garage access, with Seattle and San Francisco offered tentatively rather than established as common practice.
- The readiness to offer strangers rides seems surprising; picking up the roadside mime is distinguished from giving an acquaintance a lift after a bar.
- A broken answering machine seems an inadequate explanation for never reconnecting; the response stresses playing it cool and treats machine failure largely as a movie device, later supplanted by voicemail and pagers.