It’s pretty damn cool to see science imitating art. For those still in the dark, I’m referring to ‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind‘. One of my all time favourites in which Carey and Winslet give one of their career best performances. And it has a delightful screenplay. Check these out :
Clementine: Let me show you something… come on…
Joel: I think I heard a crack.
Clementine: It’s not gonna crack, or break, or… it’s so thick!… Show me which constellations you know.
Joel: Um… oh… I don’t… know any.
Clementine: Show me which ones you know!
Joel: Okay… okay… oh! There’s Osidius.
Clementine: Where?
Joel: Right there… see? Sort of a swoop and a cross, Osidius the Emphatic.
Clementine: You’re full of shit, right?
Joel: Nope. Osidius, right there, swoop and cross.
Clementine: Shut the fuck up!
Who hasn’t had a conversation like that in real life? 
Brilliant!
ppfffshaw, take a film with grainy exposure and several hours of jim carrey twitching his eyes and the art house folks think they have a masterpiece at hands. For a real american classic, check out Weekend at Bernie’s.
(okay… esotsm is one of my favorite movies too)
@HC – You’re forgetting the most important component of an American arthouse masterpiece – have an A-list actress look a bit like something the cat brought in. Winslet, with her crazy hair and bad skin, was just spot on!
My real American classics begin and end with the ‘American Pie’ series.