In the 1989 romantic comedy Say Anything..., Lloyd Dobler famously plays Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” outside Diane Court’s window.
The scene shows Lloyd holding a portable stereo above his head while the song plays, hoping to win Diane back after her father separates them. It became the film’s defining visual and one of the most recognizable moments in romantic-comedy history.
“In Your Eyes” was released on Gabriel’s 1986 album So. The song was not written specifically for Say Anything..., but the film gave it a powerful new association with youthful devotion and cinematic romance.
A common mix-up is confusing this scene with a serenade involving singing or a boombox from another movie. Lloyd does not perform the song himself; he plays the recorded track outside Diane’s house.