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John Cusack | ... | ||
Iben Hjejle | ... | ||
Todd Louiso | ... | ||
Jack Black | ... | ||
Lisa Bonet | ... | ||
Catherine Zeta-Jones | ... | ||
Joan Cusack | ... | ||
Tim Robbins | ... | ||
Chris Rehmann | ... | ||
Ben Carr | ... | ||
Lili Taylor | ... | ||
Joelle Carter | ... |
Penny Hardwick
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Natasha Gregson Wagner | ... |
Caroline Fortis
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Shannon Stillo | ... |
Alison Jr. High
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Drake Bell | ... |
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
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.