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Mar 31, 2000 · High Fidelity: Directed by Stephen Frears. With John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso, Jack Black. Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
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- Comedy, Drama, Music
- Stephen Frears
- 2000-03-31
High Fidelity is a 2000 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears, starring John Cusack, Jack Black, and Iben Hjejle. The film is based on the 1995 British novel of the same name by Nick Hornby, with the setting moved from London to Chicago and the protagonist's name changed.
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High Fidelity. An owner of a failing Chicago record store is forced to evaluate his troubled love life after his longtime girlfriend leaves him. 3,815 IMDb 7.4 1 h 53 min 2000. X-Ray R. Comedy · Drama · Alienated · Passionate. Available to rent or buy. Rent.
- The Beginnings
- High on The Job
- Living The Dream
- Behind The Music
- The Takeaway
JOHN CUSACK (co-writer and star): “I had worked with [then Disney studio head] Joe Roth and [music supervisor] Kathy Nelson on Grosse Point Blank. We were all friends, and we had just put together a pretty serious soundtrack for Grosse Point so we’d sort of been through that process before. They said, "You know, we own this property, High Fidelity,...
HJEJLE: We got it all shot in eight weeks in Chicago. I’d never been to America, and I’d never ever imagined that I would be going there on my first big film job. My baby came with me, and now that baby is 22 years old and a musician in his own right, signed with Sony, so something must have slipped through. [Laughs] LOUISO:We didn’t really do any ...
HJEJLE: Well, there was a bit of nudity — the dream sequence that Rob has about Laura and Tim Robbins, that was hilarious because I had been so nervous about shooting that scene. And Tim shows up and, of course, is the coolest person on the planet and is like, “I know they set the whole day to do this, but I have a baseball game in a couple of hour...
CUSACK: We’d gotten Bob Dylan to give us “Most of the Time,” which I think we used really beautifully. [The Bruce Springsteen cameo], I was lucky enough to be friendly with him, so I called him up and said, “Do you want to be in this movie that is a love letter to music, and you’ll be you, talking to me in my head?” And he just paused and laughed a...
CUSACK:In the end yeah, I think Rob ends up with Laura. He has his final temptation, you know, like the grass is gonna be greener, with him doing the same behaviors again. And then he finally realizes that those are all phantoms in his head and that the woman he wants is right in front of him. HJEJLE:I knew tons of guys like Rob, where it was ages ...
Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is the owner of a failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl.
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- Romance, Comedy
- R
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Mar 31, 2000 · John Cusack stars as Rob, who owns a used-record store in Chicago and has just broken up with Laura, his latest girlfriend. He breaks up a lot. Still hurting, he makes a list of the top five girls he has broken up with and cackles that Laura didn't make it.
