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Piper Perabo dancing on a Manhattan bar, Jerry Bruckheimer lighting it like a music video, and LeAnn Rimes secretly singing the songs. Critics gave it 23% — opening-weekend audiences graded it A− and memorized the soundtrack. The Y2K fantasy of moving to New York and being discovered lives here.
A numbed-out actor comes home to New Jersey for his mother's funeral, meets a girl who lies compulsively and feels everything, and slowly wakes up. Zach Braff wrote, directed, and starred in his 2004 indie debut while playing J.D. on Scrubs — and its Grammy-winning Shins-and-Coldplay soundtrack became the mixtape of the mid-2000s.
The tin-whistle intro alone can put you back in 1998. Celine Dion's Titanic theme was on every radio station, every wedding dance floor, and every school talent show for the better part of a year — a ballad so inescapable that even the people who made it hadn't wanted it to exist.