Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 3 wins & 22 nominations total
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- TriviaJohn Cusack and the screenwriters wrote the script with Jack Black in mind for the role of Barry. He nearly turned the role down, but reconsidered.
- Goofs"Janie Jones" by The Clash is listed as a "side one, track one." While it is indeed the first track on The Clash's British debut album, and the book was set in England, the film was moved to the USA, where the album started with "Clash City Rockers." But as record geeks, they would have been familiar with the British album as well, and could well have regarded it as the true debut album.
- Quotes
[first lines]
Rob: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?
- Crazy creditsCatherine Zeta Jones is only credited in the final cast list and not in main credits
- Alternate versionsBeverly D'Angelo appears as a woman attempting to sell her husband's vintage record collection to John Cusack's character. The scene was deleted but included with several others on the DVD release.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Siskel & Ebert: The Early Line: The Academy Awards (2000)
- SoundtracksYou're Gonna Miss Me
Written by Roky Erickson
Performed by 13th Floor Elevators (as The Thirteenth Floor Elevators)
Courtesy of Charly Licensing APS
By Arrangement with Celebrity Licensing Inc.
The movie's main plot is Rob recounting his past breakups via his favorite organizing device, the Top 5 List. He purposely excludes his most recent girlfriend, Laura, from it. He is trying to deal with her leaving him for a strange, world music-listening, martial arts-doing freak named Ian (Tim Robbins). Then he decides to look up all his old girlfriends, and in the process finds out a lot about himself.
The best scenes, however, are those in the record store - Todd Louiso and especially the utterly hilarious Jack Black steal every scene they're in. They argue over music incessantly, and anyone who knows a good deal about music will be laughing hysterically during these scenes. Dick is a quiet music geek in the classic sense of the word, while Barry is a cruel, ridiculous elitist.
In the end, High Fidelity is a wonderful, terribly funny movie with a lot of great stuff in it. See it.
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- Also known as
- Từ Khi Gặp Em
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- Budget
- $30,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $27,287,137
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,429,107
- Apr 2, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $47,126,295
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1