Top 10 Cameron Crowe Moments

"The first thing to remember about any top 10 list is that it is not to be trusted." —Cameron Crowe, writing in Empire magazine

Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), a middling student and aspiring professional kickboxer, has set his sights on the luminous Diane Court (Ione Skye) — a valedictorian "dropped in the body of a game-show hostess," as one of his friends puts it. With Diane on the verge of breaking his heart and leaving to study in London, Lloyd's defiant act of love — showing up outside her house, boom box held aloft — became the defining image of teenage romance for a generation. It may not have turned out that way if the director's original song choice for the scene, Billy Idol's "To Be a Lover," were used instead of the Peter Gabriel anthem "In Your Eyes."

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