Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.

Director:

Peter Sollett

Writers:

Lorene Scafaria (screenplay), Rachel Cohn (novel),

Stars:

Michael Cera, Kat Dennings, Aaron Yoo

9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Michael Cera	...	Nick
Kat Dennings	...	Norah
Aaron Yoo	...	Thom
Rafi Gavron	...	Dev
Ari Graynor	...	Caroline
Alexis Dziena	...	Tris
Jonathan B. Wright	...	Beefy Guy (Lethario)
Zachary Booth	...	Gary
Jay Baruchel	...	Tal
Justin Rice	...	Bishop Allen
Christian Rudder	...	Bishop Allen
Giorgio Angelini	...	Bishop Allen
Darbie Nowatka	...	Bishop Allen
Cully Symington	...	Bishop Allen
Jeremy Haines	...	Randy (Are You Randy)

Storyline

It's been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It's the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It's a night they'll never forget.

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Plot Keywords:

night | band | gay | love | yugo | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material including teen drinking, sexuality, language and crude behavior

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [ca] Official site [ca] (French)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 October 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Filming Locations:

Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$9,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£398,194 (UK) (30 January 2009)

Gross:

£398,194 (UK) (30 January 2009)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Screen Gems, Columbia Pictures, Mandate Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 90 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan:  The authors of the novel are in the background of the Veselka diner scene, sitting at a table.

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Goofs

When the "jerk-offs" finish their set at the beginning of the movie, Thom takes off his guitar. When Nick tries to turn off the drum machine, Thom comes over and kicks the plug out, still wearing his guitar.

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Quotes

Nick: Well, you're two penises short of a Shania Twain reimagination band!

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Connections

References Godzilla (1954)

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Soundtracks

"After Hours"
Performed by We Are Scientists
Written by Christopher Cain and Keith Murray
Published by Sony/ATV Tunes LLC (ASCAP)/Somewhat Neat Publishing Company (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Virgin Records Ltd.
Under license from EMI Music Marketing (p) 2008 Virgin Records Ltd., under exclusive license to Astralwerks

User Reviews

It's about the atmosphere...

All right. Listen up out there. You could say this is Juno without the baby...or almost as useless and watered down as a straight to DVD movie...but you would be missing the point--not that every movie has to have a point.

N&N is not trying to sell something or be something--it's not even trying to be great...because most love stories that try to be great fail. When you see N&N (and if you're in the mood for a lighthearted enjoyable movie, you should), don't go with an expectation of grandeur or even for the entire thing to be great. Alexis Diziena is as useless in this film as she is anorexic and whorish--her part is almost explicitly sexual. And there are so many subplots that their lives appear at times to be exaggerated. What matters almost seems to be camouflaged by what should be secondary.

The movie succeeds in a number of understated ways, though. Ari Graynor's part is by far the funniest character of the bunch and Ari plays the part extremely well. The gay band Michael Cera is a member of adds a quirky afterthought to his character's back story. And what's most important--the characters Nick and Norah act like slightly more interesting versions of normal people. They have their flaws and their disagreements but they're capable of finding the beauty in each other and their story along the way.

Movies should be about the creation and expansion of a spark of magic--not about giving you exactly what you expect or want. The perfection of the movie lives in its imperfections. The love is in the relationships that are real and what is fake gets left behind in a sketchy area near 10th street (that's not a spoiler). It amplifies grace with its soundtrack and hope with its random culmination of peculiar events over a single-night.

So just let the infinite playlist play and enjoy it already.