Saturday, March 5, 2011

sibling awesomery

I love John and Joan Cusack. They are faves. Last night I fell asleep watching Gross Pointe Blank. I love this movie too. I had forgotten about how Minnie Driver is a radio DJ. I also love how there's a ten year high school reunion but everyone looks like they're in their mid-30s, just like how all the high school kids on 90210 looked like early 20s. Nice work, Hollywood.

If you know this movie really well, I apologize for the recounting. However, since I fell asleep it will be not complete, so there's that.

John Cusack is a professional killer and he has a job to do in his hometown Detroit around the same time of his high school reunion. Joan Cusack is his assistant who helps him find info and yells at people about deliveries of bullets being lost or late. His therapist who doesn't want to see him because he's afraid of him is Alan Arkin. Minne Driver is his high school sweetheart who he stood up at prom and then disappeared to join the army and eventually become a professional killer. Jeremy Priven is his old best friend who's a real estate agent now. His mom is in a loony bin because she's loony. His house is gone and in its place is a convenience store that gets blown up by an assasin who has been sent to Detroit to kill John Cusack because the Detroit job I guess he got instead of Dan Akroyd who is JC's nemesis and wants him dead. He wears all black and everyone says he looks like a gangster. When people ask him where's he's been and what he's been doing for the past ten years, he always says professional killer and no one bats an eye, at least until the point I've seen.

I think I fell asleep when they're at the reunion. I know there's a gunfight. I think I might start it at the beginning, I like it so much. It reminds me of Better Off Dead a little. Has anyone made a movie called Better Off Ted?

1 comment:

  1. i saw that movie in high school but not for a long time. man, i didn't even think about how they were way to old to be at their ten year reunion. why can't hollywood get that shit right?

    gross point is a rich, creepy part of detriot. always good to see.

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