Let's just say the Say Anything boombox "In Your Eyes" scene goes without saying...but here are my other top picks.
1. When Duckie lip-syncs & dances to Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness" in Pretty in Pink. His entrance alone kills.
2. When the full cast of The Big Chill cleans up after a very tense dinner & does dishes to The Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."
3. The "Tiny Dancer" scene from Almost Famous, as the band is leaving Kansas in their tour bus after a very long night of debauchery, they break into a singalong version of the Elton John song that turns their moods around.
4. The "Sound of Silence" montage of the young Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate.
5. The Alice in Chains club scene where Kyra Sedgwick and Campbell Scott's characters first meet in Singles. Really seems to epitomize the grunge/ dating scene in 1992 Seattle. This scene also includes great dialogue between the two characters & then Matt Dillion's character discussing his band "Citizen Dick."
6. Soloman Burke's "Cry to Me" scene in Dirty Dancing. "Dance with Me?" Classic.
7. "I've written a letter to daddy" scene with the creepiest looking Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Her bow at the end is brilliant.
8. The club scene from Basic Instinct. This was one of the first times on film I saw two women dancing (and doing some other things) together. Frankly, I could do without Michael Douglas coming onto the scene altogether, but I took what I could get in 1992.
9. The introduction to John Turturro as Jesus in The Big Lebowski to the Gypsy Kings cover of "Hotel California."
10. Salma Hayek's lady on lady tango in Frida. Ay Dios Mio!
