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High Fidelity (2000)

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

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Thirty-something Rob Gordon, a former club DJ, owns a not so lucrative used record store in Chicago. He not so much employs Barry and Dick, but rather keeps them around as they showed up at the store one day and never left. All three are vinyl and music snobs, but in different ways. Rob has a penchant for compiling top five lists. The latest of these lists is his top five break-ups, it spurred by the fact that his latest girlfriend, Laura, a lawyer, has just broken up with him. He believed that Laura would be the one who would last, partly as an expectation of where he would be at this stage in his life. Rob admits that there have been a few incidents in their relationship which in an of themselves could be grounds for her to want to break-up. To his satisfaction, Laura is not on this top five list. Rob feels a need not only to review the five relationships, which go back as far a middle school when he was twelve, and try to come to terms with why the woman, or girl as the case may be... Written by Huggo

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A comedy about fear of commitment, hating your job, falling in love and other pop favorites. See more »

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Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

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Rated R for language and some sexuality | See all certifications »

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31 March 2000 (USA)  »

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Alta fidelidad  »

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Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$6,429,107 (USA) (31 March 2000)

Gross:

$27,277,055 (USA) (8 September 2000)
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At the beginning of the movie Barry blames Rob for wearing "a Cosby sweater", a few scenes later we meet singer Marrie De Salle, played by Lisa Bonet, who also did the character of Denise Huxtable in The Cosby Show. See more »

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While sharing with the audience a list of books he has read, Rob puts a cigarette in the left side of his mouth and begins to light it. In the next shot he finishes lighting the cigarette and it is in the right side of his mouth. See more »

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[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?
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The main end credits are printed on music-type flyers posted on poles and walls. See more »

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References Pretty in Pink (1986) See more »

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Good and Strong
Written by Sy Smith and Eddie Stokes
Performed by Sy Smith
Courtesy of Hollywood Records
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Laugh-out-loud funny!
16 February 2001 | by (Newcastle, Australia) – See all my reviews

You don't need to be a John Cusack fan to enjoy High Fidelity, nor do you need an overt appreciation of music, the film is a highly humorous, poignant and informative look at men, relationships and love.

Cusack is at his 'Grosse Point Blank' best here, investing in his character a realism that at times is so hilarious you will need to see the movie again to hear the lines you missed the first time because you were laughing too much. His emotionally strung-out breakdown is disturbing. Here is an actor that knows his craft and knows it well.

Watch out for the air-conditioning 'alternate outcome' scene. It still makes me laugh!

Cusack is by far a more talented performer than many on the scene and 'High Fidelity' is a testiment to this.


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