Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist | |
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Directed by | Peter Sollett |
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Screenplay by | Lorene Scafaria |
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Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn David Levithan |
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Music by | Mark Mothersbaugh |
Cinematography | Tom Richmond |
Edited by | Myron I. Kerstein |
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90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $10 million |
Box office | $33,506,137 |
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
Released | September 23, 2008 |
Length | 55:52 |
Label | Atlantic Records |
Producer | Myron Kerstein |
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Allmusic | |
Blogcritics | (positive) |
New York Daily News | (positive) |
IGN | (8.4/10) |
The Playlist | (negative) |
Spin | (negative) |
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Peter Sollett and starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. Written by Lorene Scafaria and based on the novel of the same name by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, the story tells of teenagers Nick (Cera) and Norah (Dennings), who meet when Norah asks Nick to pretend to be her boyfriend for five minutes. Over the course of the night, they try to find their favorite band's secret show and search for Norah's drunken best friend.
The film came into development in 2003 when producer Kerry Kohansky Roberts found Cohn and Levithan's novel and decided to adapt it for film. Scafaria was hired to write the script in 2005, and Sollett signed on to direct the film in 2006. Principal photography took place over 29 days from October to December 2007, primarily in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York City.
The film premiered on September 6, 2008 at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival and was released theatrically on October 3, 2008. It tripled its US$10 million budget with a total gross of US$33.5 million. An accompanying soundtrack was released on September 23, 2008, and the film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 3, 2009. It attracted generally positive reviews from critics and received nominations for three Satellite Awards, one GLAAD Media Award, one MTV Movie Award and one Golden Reel Award.