Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Directed by: Peter Sollett
Written by: Lorene Scafaria
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While director Peter Sollett’s first feature, Raising Victor Vargas, dealt with la vida hispánica on the Lower East Side, he turns his attention here to another significant downtown demographic — hipsters from out of town. In Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, the title’s two Bridge & Tunnel teens (Michael Cera & Kat Dennings), hung up on exes, spend a Manhattan night falling for each other while enjoying rock n’ roll music. Sollett and screenwriter Lorene Scafaria can’t squeeze much out of that, so the movie replaces its young-adult source novel’s breathlessly propulsive stream-of-consciousness with a series of diversionary asides: where’s Norah’s drunk friend? Where’s the best-band-ever’s secret show? (These mini-mysteries might account for the title’s otherwise inexplicable Thin Man reference.)

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