Say Anything... (1989 Cameron Crowe & scr)

This film just keeps getting better and better. Ione Skye falls for John Cusack because he guides her round some broken glass; John Mahoney is good as fairly tough father. Lily Taylor is the revenge singing girl and Bebe Neuwirth (Lilith from Frasier) is also in Seattle set film (as are Jeremy Piven, Joan Cusack and Eric Stoltz). Must make sure there's a CC worthy line as good as 'I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen' in everything. Polly Platt is producer and in cast. Shot by Laszlo Kovacs, edited by Richard Marks; first AD on Cameron's debut is Jerry Ziesmer who says 'the actors respected Cameron's script, and the respect for the writer flowed into respecting Cameron as director'.

The pen.

As to Ione Skye (who was born in Hampstead, incidentally) she has been working solidly... just not in anything I've heard of.