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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) 7.4
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Reviews: 289 user | 110 critic | 27 from Metacritic.com Martin Blank is a professional assassin. He is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe, and, by coincidence, his ten-year high school reunion party is taking place there at the same time. Director:George Armitage |
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| Alan Arkin | ... | ||
| Dan Aykroyd | ... | ||
| Joan Cusack | ... | ||
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| Jeremy Piven | ... | ||
| Mitchell Ryan | ... | ||
| Michael Cudlitz | ... | ||
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Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted to kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
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A comedy about a hit man, a high school reunion, and the girl he left behind. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong violence, language and some drug content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 April 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Plaćenik See more »Filming Locations:
Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,870,397 (USA) (11 April 1997)Gross:
$28,014,536 (USA) (8 August 1997)Company Credits
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Written by Paul Weller
Performed by The Jam
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When Martin (John Cusack) is trying to protect Debbie's father, Grocer (Dan Aykroyd) can be heard downstairs reciting a passage from the Bible. It is from Revelation 13. "And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshiping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to make war with him?" See more »Goofs
The number of vitamins and the position of the Newspaper on the table in the diner. See more »Quotes
Arlene: [about the nametags she's made for the reunion] I had the yearbook pictures put on so everybody knows who everybody was!Martin Q. Blank: A special torture!
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Absolute BeginnersWritten by Paul Weller
Performed by The Jam
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Good movie. Particularly the part where John Cusack is using the frying pan to put his point across to the bad guy on the kitchen floor. It's hard not to belly laugh. I thought it took cues from 'Blue Velvet', with its uncommon blend of humour and ultra-violence.
I read that parts of the dialogue were contributed by Cusack and a couple of [real-life] school friends, though cannot confirm this. It's believeable though - for example when he meets the legal guy propping up the bar at the re-union. His offering of the pen, the aside that Cusack should 'read the cap' and asking to use the funny quip - 'they all seem kinda related' - must have been based on a real person. Too sad to be fiction.
Minnie [cab] Driver, Joan Cusack and Dan Ackroyd personalise their performances very well. The support cast were excellent too. The music was an oddly enjoyable mix and the fight sequence with the pen was the most realistic (and exhausting) I'd seen. It was the attention to small detail which swung it in the end though. Cusack's buddy's coke-fuelled, paranoid banter was spot on ("Jenny Slater, Jenny Slater") as was the burning the fingers on the furnace, to name just two random details. The effect of this, is that they all add up to a movie which you can enjoy watching many times. And that makes it a rare gem.