Grosse Pointe Blank (15th Anniversary Edition) [Blu-ray]

This movie is worth the price of admission for Joan Cusack's performance alone. There are a lot of other great characters and performances in this action packed romance flick but Joan's portrayal of Martin Blank's boss lady assistant is extra in all the right ways. Minnie Driver is great as the romantic interest and a somewhat interesting character in her own right when these kind of movies can render the female lead somewhat flat. Jeremy Piven is tolerable, almost loveable, in this movie and Dan Ackroyd plays a real jerk but I find I kind of love him for it. Gross Pointe Blank is so good I almost forget it's technically a high school reunion movie but the reunion ends up being the best part of the movie, at least for me. Everything just kinda rolls on from there and then action action action, Violent Femmes, credits. That's one thing I forgot to mention. The soundtrack was produced by Joe Strummer from The Clash and the soundtrack is AWESOME.

I encountered Grosse Pointe Blank as one might stumble upon a ghost at a familiar gate—smiling, armed, and unashamed of its contradictions. It is a tale that weds violence to longing, irony to ache, and in doing so reveals a bruised heart beneath its sardonic grin. Martin Blank returns home like a storm revisiting the valley that first shaped it. He is a man sharpened into a weapon, yet dulled by isolation, carrying death as a profession and regret as a companion. Around him gathers the trappings of reunion—music, jokes, old rooms heavy with memory—yet nothing fits cleanly. The past resists him. The present mocks him. And still, he lingers, as though love itself were an unfinished duel. There is dark wit in the film’s bloodletting, but it is never empty. Each gunshot feels like a punctuation mark in a long, unresolved sentence about identity and choice. The humor crackles, bright and bitter, masking a loneliness as vast as any moorland. Even the enemies seem to mirror Martin’s inner fracture—men who kill for causes, for pay, for meaning, all circling the same emptiness. And then there is Debi, steadfast and luminous, a moral gravity that pulls against his drift. Their love is not soft nostalgia but a hard, aching possibility: the chance that one might lay down the instruments of destruction and still be accepted. Grosse Pointe Blank is no simple comedy, nor mere action romp. It is a reckoning disguised as entertainment—a reminder that one may flee home, reinvent the self, and yet remain bound to the place where the heart first learned its own ferocity. In its strange mercy, the film asks whether redemption is not a miracle, but a choice made, trembling, in full view of one’s past.

Great video to watch for the money very nice collector's item.

If you haven’t seen this movie before, get it, you’ll love it. The cast is awesome, storyline super, acting is better than anything else I’ve seen in 20 years or so. It’s a man flick, if that’s a thing, and it’s action and dialogue packed with parts that you’ll be slipping into conversations without knowing it all the time.

This is a great movie! It is funny and entertaining.

Love this movie. Fun funny and great music.

John Cusack's one of those actors whose political opinions and forays into infringements on my rights I tend to blow off so long as he produces/acts in roles as good as these. I delayed my entry into college by joining the Army a year out of high school - college funding wasn't available - and despite earning an associate's degree at night school and some university-level study while overseas, I started college full-time right around the time this movie's class would have graduated HS. The music, the characterizations, the situational humor I found funny down to my core. Been there done that. My ten year reunion found me starting my junior year of college while the people I went to HS with were being offered partnerships in law firms, starting as new cardiothoracic surgeons and ER docs (yeah, it takes ten years of college/med school/residency to get there and I"m not someone who believes health care is a "right" for aforementioned duration and devotion of/to training, no moreso than car care, legal care, or plumbing care is a "right"), but I digress. Anyone who attended college in the 80s, pretty much anyone who ever graduated high school, and/or went to their ten year reunion should watch this film. It has a lot going for it. - the nerds. - the cheerleader(s) - the "I don't know what I'm going to do with my life" moody character (Cusack) - global politics - kick boxing - the hometown girl and just a lot of good, twisted fun. I've watched this at least a dozen times over the years since it was released, and have given copies to my two - remaining - friends from HS. I've seen the sequel. Don't waste your time unless you've still got a bug up your a** about Haliburton but a president who lavishes billions on known terrorist organizations and "clean energy" cronies and has a kill list (disposition matrix) doesn't bother you, then you'll love it.

I watch this every few years - an absolute classc.

Se cercavate il film " l'ultimo contratto" ad un prezzo " NORMALE" è il momento giusto, Grosse Pointe Blank versione UK con audio italiano...in giro la versione italiana viene venduta a 50 - 70 euro .....fuori dal mondo ! Venduto e spedito da AMAZON, come sempre impeccabile. Film bellissimo.

As soon as I saw this film, it immediately became one of my all-time favourites. What a wonderful idea! A hitman goes to his high school reunion and reconnects with his childhood sweetheart,, who just happens to be a radio DJ playing one of the hippest soundtracks ever. All the cast are at the very top of their game, and have never been better: John Cusack as the hitman in an existential crisis; Minnie Driver as his long-lost love with a nice line in crackling dialogue; and Dan Aykroyd as Grocer, a rival with a preposterous agenda - a trade union for hitmen (join it or die). There are some wonderful set pieces - amongst them a shoot-out in a convenience store, with the counter assistant completely oblivious as he's playing a noisy video game; and the hitmen breakfasting together in a diner, guns cocked under the table..Of course there are plenty of bodies to be disposed of, in this blackest of black comedies. But it's all great fun.

Love this film. John Cusack delivers a droll and highly amusing performance,perfectly sparring with a hyperverbal Dan Aykroyd,feisty Minnie Driver and a fearful Alan Arkin. A great cast, snappy amusing dialogue,brilliant soundtrack and good action/fight scenes. Minnie Driver and John Cusack make such a, dare I say it, sweet couple in this. She is the girlfriend we all wished we had known.

Good movie

I've loved this movie for years. The quick humour, the deadpan characters, the story of a professional killer going to his highschool reunion... everyone should watch this