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The main actors all wrote and performed their own versified monologues, which pinball from a rant about an overpriced restaurant to a paeon to lesbian love, set on a public bus, to a couples-therapy session to a take-this-job-and-shove-it set piece by a disgruntled employee of a late-night burger joint.

“Little in Love” is an upbeat paeon to being with someone to share your life with, while “The Good Life” is an uptempo examination of what is truly important.

And then the movie – like all the great John Hughes movies, a paeon to the ambiguities of youth; the pleasures, the agonisies, the clothes, oh sweet Jesus the clothes.

Soon those daffodils will raise their golden trumpets and will sound the fanfare at the opening of the Great Jubilee, and up will spring two hundred thousand wide-eyed yellow pansies to look and wonder at the marvelous beauty, and help in the hallelujah chorus that will be one great paeon of joy, one splendid hymn of praise.

Instead it is a heart-wringing paeon to homesickness.