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John Cusack and Minnie Driver in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Joan Cusack: Marcella

Grosse Pointe Blank

Joan Cusack credited as playing...

Marcella

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  • Marty: Why are you so interested in me going to my high school reunion?
  • Marcella: I just find it amusing that you came from somewhere.
  • Marcella: Sir, they're very unhappy.
  • Martin Q. Blank: I'm very unhappy.
  • Marcella: It was supposed to look like a heart attack! He was supposed to die in his sleep!
  • Martin Q. Blank: Well, he moved.
  • Marcella: Sir, I'm really beginning to worry about your safety.
  • Marty: Look, I got to go.
  • Marcella: Yeah, we all got to go sometime, sir, but we can choose when.
  • Marty: No one chooses when.
  • Marcella: [Marcella dances around the office, pouring gasoline all over everything, pounding on computers with a hammer, throwing bits of equipment across the room, all the while humming cheerfully to herself. The phone rings]
  • Marcella: Hello?
  • Marty: Are we out of business yet?
  • Marcella: [sing-song] I am taking down the office now.
  • Marcella: You can take care of business and stop by Grosse Pointe for your reunion...
  • Marty: Look, Sergeant Pepper, I really need you to shut up about that.
  • Marcella: Sir, it's out of my hands. The gods want you to go back home and they want you to delete someone while you're there.
  • Marcella: Don't hang up! Wait! Did ya' read yesterday's offer?
  • Marty: Hold on a minute.
  • Marcella: It's in French. It's a Greenpeace boat. It'd be so easy.
  • Marty: No way! I have scruples.
  • Marcella: You know, when you started getting invited to your ten-year high school reunion, time is catching up.
  • Martin Q. Blank: Are you talking about a sense of my own mortality or a fear of death?
  • Marcella: Well, I never really thought about it quite like that.
  • Martin Q. Blank: Did you go to yours?
  • Marcella: Yes, I did. It was just as if everyone had swelled.
  • Marcella: [Carrying on multiple conversations over the phone] Okay, got it.
  • Marty: Bye bye
  • [hangs up]
  • Marcella: Amelia?
  • [the other line beeps]
  • Marcella: Wait, hold on a second.
  • [switches to the other line]
  • Marcella: Pacific Trident Global. Janice?... Yeah, where the fuck is it? I ordered it three days ago... No, that doesn't work. That's, that's not right. Let me go over it again, alright? Let's see: 3,000 rounds of 9mm sub-sonic. You had that. I gave that to you on the fucking list!... Well I don't give a god damn where it is, you get it here now!
  • [hangs up]
  • Marcella: Amelia? I'm sorry... Yeah, no... No, I, it's not going to be a boring soup! It just, that's just the base! You put the chicken in, you gotta add other flavors. Carrots and celery are just a base of a soup!
  • Marcella: As a graduate of the class of 1986, you are someone special. Remember, there's nowhere you can go that you haven't learned how to go in time. Whatever the hell that means.
  • Marcella: I'm getting a black cat, Friday-the-13th kind of feeling about this one.
  • Marty: Look, I have to go.
  • Marcella: Yeah, we all have to go sometime, sir, but we can choose when.
  • Marty: No one chooses when.
  • Marcella: So, you're gonna get out of there, right? I mean, that's not right. Right? You gotta get out of there, right? You're on a flight tonight, right?
  • Marcella: We've got Steven Lardner, a.k.a. Steve, and Kenneth McCullers, no pseudonym. Steve was a red-shirt tailback from Ohio State. McCullers, all-American wrestler from Northwestern, MBA from the same.
  • Marty: What are they doing here?
  • Marcella: Well, they're domestic covert operatives for the NSA, up there as part of a new get-tough-on-terror campaign. They're looking for an Oswald, a patsy to take the fall.

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