Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, out this weekend, is a charming entry into a time-honored movie subgenre: the One Crazy Night movie. You know the type: Over the course of one incredible evening, our heroes will drive around, find adventure, listen to some tunes, and maybe just maybe fall in love. Nick and Norah features all the hallmarks of the classic One Crazy Night movie. It's got an unexpected hero who steals the show: Norah's drunken best friend, played by Ari Graynor. It's got authority figures to rebel against: Norah's unseen father, some kind of record-company bigwig. It's got wild late-night encounters (with pantsless altar boys, Devendra Banhart, and a vomit-filled Port Authority toilet). And it ends, as all One Crazy Night movies should, the quiet morning after, with dawn just breaking over Manhattan.
For all their flaws formulaic storytelling, crude caricatures, senseless wackiness One Crazy Night movies often becomes generational touchstones. We've come up with our ten favorites, after the jump and it was hard to narrow it down. Believe it or not, we didn't even have room for Adventures in Babysitting.

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