re: Grosse Pointe Blank: Bona-fide classic or Hall of Very Good?

Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:50 am to Muthsera

Posted by Tiger Voodoo

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Posted on 2/14/21 at 8:50 am to Muthsera

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It's such an offbeat movie and decidedly early 90s but still holds up well on rewatch

It came out in 97

That was the start of a great adult career for Cusack after struggling for nearly a decade after outgrowing the teen movies he did in the 80s ending with Say Anything in 89.

After GPB he did Con Air, High Fidelity, Pushing Tin, Being John Malkovich, in the next few years. Of course he followed those up with a lot of other more mediocre fare as well, the dude just wants to work constantly it seems and doesn’t seem to care about good scripts unfortunately. But he did have some good ones in there.

With his star power and Piven’s rise with Entourage it really is annoying that they never pushed hard enough to make the sequel to GPB happen that they still talk about to this day.

Would have loved to revisit the Pointe for their 25 year reunion

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Posted by chinese58

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Posted on 2/14/21 at 2:10 pm to Tiger Voodoo

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That was the start of a great adult career for Cusack after struggling for nearly a decade after outgrowing the teen movies he did in the 80s ending with Say Anything in 89.

After GPB he did Con Air, High Fidelity, Pushing Tin, Being John Malkovich, in the next few years.

I'm older than most on here. The Grifters (1990) was the first of his roles that I really liked.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997) is one of the best movies he's been in. His just wasn't one of the meatier roles in the film.