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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) 7.3
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Reviews: 272 user | 108 critic | 27 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:George Armitage |
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| John Cusack | ... | ||
| Minnie Driver | ... | ||
| Alan Arkin | ... | ||
| Dan Aykroyd | ... | ||
| Joan Cusack | ... | ||
| Hank Azaria | ... | ||
| K. Todd Freeman | ... | ||
| Jeremy Piven | ... | ||
| Mitch Ryan | ... |
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| Michael Cudlitz | ... | ||
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Audrey Kissel | ... | |
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Martin Blank is a freelance hitman who starts to develop a conscience, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he attends his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted to kill someone). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents, another assassin who wants to kill him, and Grocer, an assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." Written by Afterburner <aburner@erols.com>
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Even A Hit Man Deserves A Second Shot! See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for strong violence, language and some drug content | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
11 April 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Tiro al blanco See more »Filming Locations:
Ambassador Hotel - 3400 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$6,870,397 (USA) (11 April 1997)Gross:
$28,014,536 (USA) (8 August 1997)Company Credits
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[We hear a car pulling in]
Marty: They're right behind us. So I was in the Gulf last year, I was doing this thing anyway. And I came up over this dune, and I saw the ocean... and it was on fire. The whole thing, on fire, and it...
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Written by Paul Weller
Performed by The Jam
Courtesy of Polydor Limited
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Licensing
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The arcade game that the Ultimart employee is playing during the shootout is the aptly titled classic Doom II. The game was never actually available in a commercial arcade cabinet and must have been constructed specially for the film. See more »Goofs
When DJ-ing, Debbie plays a Specials LP with the Two Tone Label on it. The song she played, Pressure Drop (originally done by Toots and the Maytals), never appeared on any Specials LPs on the Two Tone Label, but on an album released in 1996 called "Specials Today" on Chrysalis Records. See more »Quotes
Marty: I was sitting there alone on prom night, in a goddamn rented tuxedo, and my whole life flashed before my eyes. And I realized finally, and for the first time, that I wanted to kill somebody. So I figured since I loved you so much, it'd be a good idea if I didn't see you anymore.[We hear a car pulling in]
Marty: They're right behind us. So I was in the Gulf last year, I was doing this thing anyway. And I came up over this dune, and I saw the ocean... and it was on fire. The whole thing, on fire, and it...
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"Absolute Beginners"Written by Paul Weller
Performed by The Jam
Courtesy of Polydor Limited
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Although not nearly as popular as it deserves to be, GROSS POINTE BLANK has become an increasingly respected cult flick in the year following its theatrical release and it's not hard to see why. The movie is probably the only film on earth that is able to blend comedy, graphic violence, and romance together perfectly, which is what makes it such a classic. John Cusack is excellent as Martin Q. Blank, a hit-man who attends his ten-year high school reunion. At first he doesn't want to, but decides to go since he has a case there and he wants to see his old girlfriend Debbie (Minnie Driver) again. This dark comedy is heavy on exciting action, suspense, gunfire, laughs, and fun, but it doesn't have not quite enough character development for my taste (a bit more on how Martin became accustomed to killing would have been nice). Still, GROSSE POINTE BLANK was one of the best films of 1997 and one of the better comedies of the 1990s. There were rumors of a sequel happening for a while, though the chances of that happening are slim to none. Too bad.