History Trivia / SayAnything

* DawsonCasting: Creator/JohnCusack was 22 years old at the time filming and plays a high school senior.

* BreakawayPopHit: Music/PeterGabriel almost didn't release ''[[{{Music/So}} In Your Eyes]]'' when Cameron Crow asked the studio to sent him a rough cut of the film. Gabriel approved the use of his song, but told Crowe that he was uneasy about the overdose of the main character at the end; the studio had erroneously sent Gabriel the film ''Wired''[[note]] The biopic of ''Creator/JohnBelushi''[[/note]] instead.

* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/CameronCrowe.

* ThoseTwoActors: Kim Walker (who plays Sheila, who credits Diane with motivating her enough to get into Stanford) and Lisanne Falk (who plays one of the girls who overhears Diane's call to her father at the party) were both in ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' as two of the title characters.

* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/ShesOutOfControl'', another high-school level comedy. ''Say Anything'' [[CurbStompBattle ANNIHILATED]] ''She's Out of Control,'' in both box office and critical ratings (Creator/RogerEbert named it the best romantic movie since 1980, while giving ''She's Out of Control'' a zero star rating and putting it on his most-hated list of films.)

* UncreditedRole: In addition to Creator/JoanCusack (see RealLifeRelative above), Lois Chiles appears uncredited as Diane's mother.

* RealLifeRelative: John Cusack's sister [[Creator/JoanCusack Joan]] plays...his sister.

* DuelingMovies: With ''Film/ShesOutOfControl'', another high-school level comedy. ''Say Anything'' [[CurbStompBattle ANNIHILATED]] ''She's Out of Control,'' in both box office and critical ratings (Creator/RogerEbert named it the best romantic movie since 1980, while giving ''She's Out of Control'' a zero star rating and putting it on his [[RogerEbertMostHatedFilmList most-hated list of films.]])

** John Cusack and John Mahoney were both in ''Film/EightMenOut''.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** The SignatureScene of Lloyd holding a boombox over his head might not have the same impact today if he were holding an iPod instead. Then again, a 21st-century Lloyd would be holding up some kind of iPod player with a picture of a boombox on it, [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BJMT4vfBbE-/ as joked by Brie Larson.]]
** The people filming the graduation ceremony using actual film cameras. Today they'd just be holding up their phones.
** Combine the two and you get a Film/{{Deadpool 2}} scene. And it's both sweet and ridiculous.

** Creator/RobertDowneyJr turned down the role of Lloyd, Creator/ChristianSlater auditioned for the role.

* BreakawayPopHit: Music/PeterGabriel almost didn't release ''[[{{Music/So}} In Your Eyes]]'': ->''when Cameron Crow asked the studio to sent him a rough cut of the film.
Gabriel approved the use of his song, but told Crowe that he was uneasy about the overdose of the main character at the end; the studio had erroneously sent Gabriel the film ''Wired''[[note]] The biopic of ''Creator/JohnBelushi''[[/note]] instead.

* BreakawayPopHit: Music/PeterGabriel almost didn't release ''[[{{Music/So}} In Your Eyes]]'' - when Cameron Crow asked the studio to sent him a rough cut of the film.

* BreakawayPopHit: Music/PeterGabriel almost didn't release ''[[Music/So In Your Eyes]]'' - when Cameron Crow asked the studio to sent him a rough cut of the film.

* TooSoon: In 2017, Max Bemis announced he'd be retiring their 2004 single "Wow! I Can Get Sexual Too" from live performances indefinitely: The lyrics depict phone sex with a young, ambiguously underage, woman, subject matter he now finds "no longer appropriate" due to numerous allegations about musicians in the emo/punk scene pursuing young fans coming out around that time.

** Had Ione Skye turned down the role of Diane, Creator/JenniferConnelly would have played her. In fact, Connelly turned down the lead in ''Film/{{Heathers}}'' to audition.