High Fidelity
starring: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Todd Louiso
directed by: Stephen Frears
directed by: Stephen Frears
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CUSACK,JOHN
EAN: 0717951009944
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 08, 2000
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 3161
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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From the guys who brought you GROSSE POINTE BLANK comes the absolutely hilarious HIGH FIDELITY. John Cusack (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) stars as Rob Gordon, the owner of a semi-failing record store located on one of the back streets of Chicago. He sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl, with two wacky clerks, the hysterically funny rock snob Barry (Jack Black) and the more quietly opinionated underachiever Dick (Todd Luiso). But Rob's business isn't the only thing in his life that's floundering -- his needle skips the love groove when his longtime girlfriend Laura (newcomer Iben Hjejle) walks out on him. And this forces him to examine his past failed attempts at romance the only way he knows how! For a rocking fun time, give HIGH FIDELITY a spin. It's sure to make your all-time top five list for comedies -- with a bullet.
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Transplanted from England to the not-so-mean streets of Chicago, the screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's cult-classic novel High Fidelity emerges unscathed from its Americanization, idiosyncrasies intact, thanks to John Cusack's inimitable charm and a nimble, nifty screenplay (cowritten by Cusack). Early-thirtysomething Rob Gordon (Cusack) is a slacker who owns a vintage record shop, a massive collection of LPs, and innumerable top-five lists in his head. At the opening of the film, Rob recounts directly to the audience his all-time top-five breakups--which doesn't include his recent falling out with his girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle), who has just moved out of their apartment. Thunderstruck and obsessed with Laura's desertion (but loath to admit it), Rob begins a quest to confront the women who instigated the aforementioned top-five breakups to find out just what he did wrong.
Low on plot and high on self-discovery, High Fidelity takes a good 30 minutes or so to find its groove (not unlike Cusack's Grosse Pointe Blank), but once it does, it settles into it comfortably and builds a surprisingly touching momentum. Rob is basically a grown-up version of Cusack's character in Say Anything (who was told 'Don't be a guy--be a man!'), and if you like Cusack's brand of smart-alecky romanticism, you'll automatically be won over (if you can handle Cusack's almost-nonstop talking to the camera). Still, it's hard not to be moved by Rob's plight. At the beginning of the film he and his coworkers at the record store (played hilariously by Jack Black and Todd Louiso) seem like overgrown boys in their secret clubhouse; by the end, they've grown up considerably, with a clear-eyed view of life. Ably directed by Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons), High Fidelity features a notable supporting cast of the women in Rob's life, including the striking, Danish-born Hjejle, Lisa Bonet as a sultry singer-songwriter, and the triumphant triumvirate of Lili Taylor, Joelle Carter, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Rob's ex-girlfriends. With brief cameos by Tim Robbins as Laura's new, New Age boyfriend and Bruce Springsteen as himself. --Mark Englehart
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- I'll take the soundtrack insteadRob Gordon (John Cusack) didn't exactly become what he wanted. He owns a vintage vinyl record shop ... Read More
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- He's grumpy, he's broke, he hangs out with the musical moron twins... 2000 brought us High Fidelity, the movie adaptation of the popular book by Nick Hornby of the ... Read More
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- TOP TWO MISTAKES IN HIGH FIDELITY"High Fidelity" is on my top-five all-time desert island movie list. After watching it for the millionth ... Read More
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- horridI'm not a Cusack fan. At best he's tolerable.
THis movie was boring and painful to watch. It's ... Read More
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- Charming....Really! Sensitivity Warning, though.I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. John Cusack is his usual charming man-next-door with issues. ... Read More
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