Campbell Scott swings at one of the year's juiciest roles and knocks it out of the park. Adman Roger Swanson is a nightmare vision of the New York bachelor: a charming, acid-tongued predator. His boss (Isabella Rossellini) has dumped him, leaving Roger particularly bitter when he decides to help his sixteen-year-old nephew, Nick (the excellent Jesse Eisenberg), lose the teen stigma of virginity. During a frenzied night in Manhattan, Roger and Jesse hook up with two happy-hour babes (Jennifer Beals and Elizabeth Berkley), crash Roger's boss's party and venture into an underground sex club. Roger's mouth never stops, and Scott gives every line a bruising comic snap.

Credit writer-director Dylan Kidd for creating a wild ride of a movie that keeps throwing fastballs, including a hilarious coda in which Roger pops up at Nick's school. Unlike Roger, Kidd's film refuses to dodge the harsher truths.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."