Freeman argues that such films were “deeply formative”: “They provided the lifelong template for my perceptions of funniness (Eddie Murphy), coolness (Bill Murray) and sexiness (Kathleen Turner). The book’s title is a partial quote from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the cover art is of a video cassette evoking the video shop she was addicted to as a bookish New York child and her cover quote is: “I know people who have changed their entire lives because of a line of dialogue from When Harry Met Sally… and when I say ‘people’ I obviously mean ‘me’.”Īlthough Freeman acknowledges the potency of generational cultural nostalgia (in this case, for a generation that’s not technically her own), she not only likes “fun, mainstream” 80s films, she reveres them for being “sweetly specific in their references and completely universal in their humour and stories”. I n Life Moves Pretty Fast, Hadley Freeman sets her stall out early.
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