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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
George Armitage
Writers (WGA):
Tom Jankiewicz (story)
Tom Jankiewicz (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
11 April 1997 (USA) more
Tagline:
Even A Hit Man Deserves A Second Shot! more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
2 wins & 4 nominations more
User Comments:
I'm drawing a complete... more (241 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

John Cusack ... Martin Q. Blank

Minnie Driver ... Debi Newberry

Alan Arkin ... Dr. Oatman

Dan Aykroyd ... Grocer

Joan Cusack ... Marcella

Hank Azaria ... Steven Lardner
K. Todd Freeman ... Kenneth McCullers

Jeremy Piven ... Paul Spericki

Mitch Ryan ... Mr. Bart Newberry (as Mitchell Ryan)

Michael Cudlitz ... Bob Destepello
Benny Urquidez ... Felix La PuBelle
Duffy Taylor ... Ultimart Carl
Audrey Kissel ... Arlene
Carlos Jacott ... Ken

Brian Powell ... Husky Man
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for strong violence, language and some drug content.
Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Iceland:16 | USA:R (certificate #34841) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (British Columbia) | Canada:14A (Ontario) (video rating: 2004) | Canada:AA (Ontario) (original rating) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | South Korea:15 | Netherlands:12 (TV version) | Spain:18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The goon stalking Martin Blank is 'Benny "The Jet" Urquidez', a world-champion kickboxer who was also John Cusack's kickboxing instructor. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Martin picks up Debbie to take her to the reunion he is holding flowers upright behind his back. When seen from her point of view, the flowers are upside down. more
Quotes:
Debi: Okay. So. You're back... a decade late, and... you're on some sort of therapeutic assignment, and you want to sort things out with me. So the question now becomes, do I allow you access to me or... do I call security?
Marty: I don't think that'd be a good idea.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in A History of Violence (2005) more
Soundtrack:
Live and Let Die more

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38 out of 48 people found the following comment useful.
I'm drawing a complete..., 8 January 1999
8/10
Author: Noir-5 from London

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.

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