(2008) "Go find Fluffy!" Delightfully funny, quirky, teen romance, with a rich mix of innocence and raunchiness, directed by Peter Sollett, based on Rachel Cohn and David Levithon's novel.

Nick (Michael Cera), who's straight, plays bass guitar for the Jerk Offs, a gay band. At the conclusion of the band's performance, Norah (Kat Dennings), reacting to a putdown from the pulchritudinous and popular Tris (Alexis Dziena), asks Nick (whom she doesn't know at the time): "Would you be my boyfriend for five minutes?"

Also, though she's collected seven of Nick's CD mixes that Tris has tossed in the trash, she doesn't know until then that Nick had been dating Tris for six months (though she knows Tris had been cheating on her boyfriend) before their breakup a month earlier.

Tris has hooked up with Gary, who attends college. Norah from Englewood, New Jersey, attends Sacred Heart (as does Tris); Nick's from Hoboken. Norah's responsible for getting her friend Caroline (Ari Graynor), aka Drunkzilla, home.

Nick's bandmates - Thom (Aaron Yoo), Dev, and Lethario the Beefy Guy - take it upon themselves to bring Nick and Norah ("We've decided you're to be his salvation") together because Tris has been awful for him, volunteering to drive Caroline home, leaving Nick to take Norah (supplied with a new bra) in his yellow Yugo to find Where's Fluffy, their favorite band in the world, somewhere in New York City. (A couple mistakenly gets into Nick's car - "I'm not a cab" - thinking it's a taxi, give directions, and make out.)

Unfortunately, hearing the three guys discussing possible new names for their band, Caroline in her stupor in the back of the van misunderstands their taking about "going balls deep" and thinks she's being kidnapped. Ending an argument between Nick and Norah with a text message of the missing girl, the three boys pick up Nick and Norah to form a search party: Find Caroline then Fluffy.

In the Port Authority, Caroline drops her cellphone and chewing gum into an unflushed toilet, retrieving both with her bare hand and returning the gum to her mouth; at a gay and lesbian bar, where Christmas is a continuous celebration, she appears on stage during a performance of "The 12 Gays of Christmas."

Following the van in a taxi are Tris and her supernumerary Gary. Next, after Norah tells him that they are musical soulmates, Nick discovers that Norah has a boy-ex-friend Tal, a three-year relationship she describes as being "friends with benefits." (Tal, also a musician, however, has ulterior motives, more focused on the benefits than the friendship.)

Nick temporarily reconnects with Tris. In an effort to put the pieces back together, Nick and Norah go to Ira Silverberg's Electric Lady Studios where some of the greatest rock'n'roll acts have recorded their music. Where's Where's Fluffy?

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