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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
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Rob Gordon is a music-loving man with a poor understanding of women. After being dumped by his live-in girlfriend of two years, Laura, he tries to understand how he failed in his relationships by seeking out his old partners. By day, Rob works at his record store, Championship Vinyl, where customers drift through.
- John Cusack Didn’T Want to Break The Fourth Wall.
- And Jack Black Didn’T Want to Be in The Film at all.
- Bruce Springsteen Was Not First Choice to Star in Rob’s Fantasy sequence.
- But Getting The Boss Was Easier Than expected.
- Sixty-Six Real Music Artists Are Named Throughout The Movie …
- … as Well as A Few Fake Ones
- The Gordons Are A Pretty Famous Family.
- The Film Includes Nods to Its Actors’ Personal Histories.
- There Are Four Cusacks in This Movie ...
- And A Number of Musician Cameos.
In order to capture the contemplative persona of the novel’s main character, the film’s writing team suggested modeling its narration after the Michael Caine film Alfie, in which Caine regularly addresses the audience straight on. Cusack was hesitant, telling The New York Timesin 2000, “I vetoed that idea. I thought there'd just be too much of me.”...
Black nails his role as hyperactive and pathologically insensitive record store employee Barry—which, in fact, Cusack and company wrote with him in mind—but the actor initially had no interest in playing the part. Once again, it was director Frears who managed to save the day, pursuing Black until he eventually agreed to join the cast.
Bob Dylan was actually Cusack’s personal first choice to play Rob’s “imaginary friend” in the fantasy sequence that preempts his decision to contact all his old girlfriends.
Dylan was unavailable to play the part, so Cusack made a last-ditch effort to contact Bruce Springsteen. “I had met him socially, so I thought even though he's going to say no, I may as well call him and throw the Hail Mary pass and get it over with,” Cusack told The New York Times. “And he kind of just laughed at the idea and said, ‘Send me a scri...
In chronological order: Carly Simon, Carole King, James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Elton John, The Smiths, Frank Zappa, Cheryl Ladd, Belle and Sebastian, Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, The Righteous Brothers, Gene Simmons, Nirvana, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Susan Dey, Deep Purple, Howlin’ Wolf, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, The Clash, ...
The script is also peppered with nods to bands and artists invented for the movie, including Licorice Comfit, Marie De Salle, The Kinky Wizards, Sonic Death Monkey, Kathleen Turner Overdrive, and Barry Jive and the Uptown Five. (However, the latter three are all the same band.)
Cusack’s character is part of a pretty impressive onscreen bloodline. Margaret Travolta, sister of John Travolta, plays Rob’s unsympathetic mother, and Harold Ramis plays his father in a deleted scene. Furthermore, an early flashback in the movie features Drake Bell, who’d later earn notability on children’s programs like The Amanda Show and Drake ...
A number of in-jokes were peppered throughout High Fidelityin reference to its starring players. For instance, Rob Gordon touts his “little black book” of former lovers’ information as if it were his personal talisman. A keen eye will recognize that the pad is a Chandler’s Assignment Notebook, a required item for all attendants of Evanston’s Townsh...
In addition to star John and his sister Joan, who plays Rob’s occasionally vitriolic friend Liz, High Fidelityfeatures the pair’s younger sister Susie in a minor role as a party guest, as well as their father Dick in a likewise minor role as the minister at Laura’s father’s funeral.
Instead of lining Rob’s record store with your standard herd of anonymous extras, the shop’s patrons were played largely by somewhat obscure but accomplished rock musicians. Artists like jazz and rock guitarist Jeff Parker, singer/songwriter Liam “Plush” Hayes, and Alan S. Johnson (founder of the Chicago-based noise rock band U.S. Maple) all browse...
Mar 31, 2020 · Cusack starred as Rob Gordon, a music-loving record store owner who has a difficult time understanding women. After he is dumped by his long-term girlfriend (Hjejle), Rob decides to analyze his...
- Katherine Schaffstall
Rob Fleming is the only character that readers get to know in Hornby’s High Fidelity. Rob is the narrator, and most of what happens does so through Rob’s point of reference and interpretation.
Hornby’s High Fidelity features Rob Fleming, the thirty-five-year-old narrator who sees the world through not rose-tinted glasses but rather lenses with a gray tinge. Rob is a gloomy...
Mar 31, 2020 · Twenty years on, the cast — including Cusack, now 53, whose music obsessive Rob Gordon became an icon of damaged Gen-X romanticism — looks back at a modern cult classic.
