Kickboxing

It began with a knock on the door. Cameron Crowe turned the knob, and there was Lowell Marchant, a beaming 19-year-old freshly relocated from Arkansas to Los Angeles. "It's a pleasure to be here in California," he told Crowe. "I'm a kickboxer. Do you know about kickboxing? It's the sport of the future." To anyone who's passed through adolescence in the last 20 years, that brief recollection is enough to pinpoint the source for Lloyd Dobler, the gallant, determined and, yes, kickboxing hero of Crowe's directorial debut, "Say Anything . . . ," which Fox will release next week in a deluxe Blu-ray edition to commemorate its landmark anniversary.