Grosse Pointe Blank
GROSSE POINTE BLANKÂ (15)
D: George Armitage
Hollywood/New Crime/Caravan (Susan Arnold, Donna Arkoff
Roth & Roger Birnbaum)
USA 🇺🇸 1997
108 mins
Crime/Comedy
W:Â Tom Jankiewicz, D. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink
& John Cusack
DP: Jamie Anderson
Ed: Brian Berdan
Mus: Joe Strummer
John Cusack (Martin Q. Blank), Minnie Driver
(Debi Newberry), Alan Arkin (Dr. Oatman), Dan Aykroyd (Mr. Grocer), Jeremy Piven (Paul Sperick), Hank Azaria (Steven Lardner), K. Todd Freeman (Ken McCullers), Barbara Harris (Mary
Blank)
John Cusack is perfectly cast as the ice cool hitman in
this brilliant black comedy.
Invited to his 10 year high school reunion, he revisits
his home town and discovers much change, his old house is replaced by a convenience store, his mother is in a care home and the ex-girlfriend he left stranded on prom night wants answers...
He also has an assassination to carry out while a rival has also put out a hit on him!
Packed with a brilliant 80's soundtrack and subtle
one-liners, Grosse Pointe Blank isn't a film which will appreciated by everyone, but those who do will love it.
Some consider it an unofficial sequel to Say Anything
(qv). It's an interesting theory, but I personally think that's all it is.
8/10
