Now Hiring? Grosse Pointe Blank | First Time Watching | Reaction |
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ธ.ค. 2023
- Here's the killer comedy hit that's loaded with outrageous fun! For Martin Blank (John Cusack), a hit man stuck in a career rut, attending his 10-year high school reunion is about the last thing he's in the mood for. But when the prospects of rekindling an old flame (Minnie Driver) and pulling off one final job convince him to go, things are looking up ... that is, until Martin's arch rival (Dan Aykroyd) shows up aiming to blow the competition away. For hilarious comedy entertainment that's packed with action, GROSSE POINTE BLANK is a surefire knockout!
Actors: John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd
Director: George Armitage
Genres: Comedy
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Grosse Pointe (where the film is supposedly set) near Detroit, Michigan actually has 5 communities along Lake St. Clair - Grosse Pointe (city), Grosse Pointe Woods, Grosse Pointe Farms, Grosse Pointe Shores and Grosse Pointe Woods. The French spelling reflects the old explorers, mapmakers and settlers in the area who were French.
I guess this would be a "big point" then?
One of the most 90s movies ever. Just a great mix of 90s indie-vibe, 90s style action, and 90s sharp-witted comedy. Perfect casting, perfect direction, always fun to watch.
Debbie from Addams Family is actually John's Cusack sister
Another sister of theirs also appeared in the bar, playing a drunk alum who always thought they were meant to be together.
And that sister was in A League of Their Own!
Bill Cusack, another sibling, also had a cameo.
Joan Cusack was also in "Toys"; a very charming film with (among others) Robin Williams
Joan was amazing in Arlington Road.
I love this movie. A perfect blend of dark comedy action and rom com.
Underrated IMO.
Glad you enjoyed it. One of my Mom and mines top 10.
That wasn't wine that he poured at his dad's grave, it was clearly whiskey. It strongly suggests that Dad was a drunk, and that the only thing he probably cared about was booze. It's kind of a twisted demonstration of what passes for Martin's love of his dead drunk dad. He's giving his father what his father loved most.
When you pour one out for a dead friend, you usually pour one glass (to symbolize that they're still there sharing a glass with you in spirit), not the whole bottle. Pouring out the entire bottle - and then dropping the whole bottle on the grave! - is a hint that his dad would have drank the whole thing when he was alive, and turns it from a gesture of nostalgia to a weird mix of nostalgia and contempt.
Great point. One of my most favorite movies. I’ve watched it probably 30
Single Malt Scotch Glen...
It's most definitely a backhanded offering. "I love you enough to visit you, but you were a real bastard."
@@AuspexAO Love them or hate them they still family. Nice little subtitles in scenes this. Makes sense he's back to embrace his childhood that he ran away from.
so fun fact: the assassin cusack kills in the school is a world champion kickboxer.. a legend his name is benny urquidez.. he trained jon for this and said jon is an amazing kickboxer and could have been a real fighter if he wanted to as jon had been training for years since the 80's.. benny has worked with people like jackie chane
Loyd was a kickboxer in Say Anything, I believe. That's probably when he started training.
@@meggsy82Yeah, he learned to kickbox for Say Anything and kept up with it afterward. Benny was his trainer for Say Anything, which is why he hired him to do the fight choreography (and play the assassin) in this movie.
Props to your community for suggesting this one. There's barely ANY reactions to this movie and its FABULOUS. John Cusack is a G.
We watched this for a business ethics class in college and I've loved it ever since. "It's not me! If I show up on your door, you did something wrong." and he doesn't kill animals bc morals. Perfect sense.
Well except the dog with a stick of dynamite
@@AwesomeUSMovies an accident!
@@AwesomeUSMoviesThat was the dog's choice.
I’m 38, and remember several of my teachers from high school. I see one of them fairly frequently, another on occasion, and two others on my Facebook.
The "machine" they put the body in is not a machine. It's a furnace and my school had one exactly like it. The school janitor would burn all of the trash in there.
That big machine was an oil fired boiler to heat the school. You'll see those in a lot of older buildings, especially up north. My school had one,.
She was big
Congratulations on setting a new record with eight people you recognized. Glad you had fun with this, and hope you have a Happy New Year.
Thanks, you too!
Hello. Watching you react is GREAT! I really appreciate you 'NOT' stopping the movie to comment & love your joyful comments & laughter. Thank You for reacting to GPB. It's a gem of a pic & my fav John Cusack role. There are 4 Cusacks acting in this flick.
Thanks, James!
One of my top 5 faves!
Trust me, you will think about this film over the next few weeks, it sticks w you as there is alot of truth involved.
Hapoy New Year! ❤
I love how everybody reacts hearing about Martin being hitman like it's some ordinary job.
I love this film the characters are so rich and fresh.
I think I read it’s been ten movies that John and Joan have both appeared in together.
This film is probably my favorite of the comedic, troubled hit man genre. Still, "Lucky Number Slevin" is an extremely close second, followed by "The Matador". For hit man comedy in general, I can't recommend "RED" enough: you might break your record for most recognized actors on that one. Lovely reaction!
That was the furnace that they put the body in near the end.
Wow! You got just about everybody. Yay!
Yessssssss! I recommended this one! An absolute favorite! Great soundtrack too.
I have been to a reunion, a few years back. It was nice and I haven't felt the need to speak to any of them since.
OMG, this is one of my favorites! Such a great movie.
I was living and going to school in Grosse Pointe when they made this movie.
Fun, was it the actual school they used?
John Joan Ann and Bill were all born Cusack, and in this film. Pretty cool.
Its amazing how many reactors I see to this film who don't realize large schools (at least schools in the north) have furances in them.
That was a furnace or a boiler?
@@AwesomeUSMoviesFurnace - a boiler would just be a water tank. (Home furnaces don't usually have a door like that, but this one's industrial-size because it has to heat the whole school and can also be used as an incinerator.)
One of my all time favorite movies!
In addition to always having been a John Cusack fan…I always felt a strong connection to this film, because I was Class of ‘86 also…and this is about him returning for his 10-year Class of 86, high school reunion. 🙂
The title also has an E after Point. Like some places do. Grosse Pointe is a place
Hank Azaria (Phoebe's boyfriend) plays like half the characters on The Simpsons.
This is my favorite movie period. And it's so quotable. "You can never go home again Oltman... But I guess you can shop there."
Also that fight in the school locker area is pretty darn close to being realistic and not looking like a choreographed movie fight.
The "thing" they tossed him in... is a Furnace... for heating the school... They tend to have such things in the north where they get Feet of snow every year.
That's one of the best-choreographed film fights, and also one of the best uses of background music. I love the perfect timing when the upbeat music gets louder during the fight and then fades into the melancholy 99 Luftballons as soon as it's over (and then hits the more frantic chorus of 99 Luftballons exactly as they move the body!)
One of my Favorite movies, Dark yet terrifically funny.
Love this movie. Just a fun movie. I graduated 2000 didnt have a 10 year reunion but threw together a 13 year reunion. Was open bar was a great time from what I remember haha. Great reaction
If you like Alan Arkin, he was also in another super film that year [1997] called “Gattaca”…an incredible film.
Another great movie with Minnie Driver is 'Return To Me' with David Duchovny from 'The X-Files'.
Return to Me…one of my absolute favorite romcoms!
Her dad was the main head partner in Liar, Liar and the dad in Darhma and Greg Jenna Elfman was the girl with the neck brace and was Dharma from the show Dharma and Greg too.
My 30th high school reunion is coming up in a few years. I hadn't been to one. They stopped looking for me after the 20th year reunion 😂
Oh, you made my day. So one thing many people dont know is that John Cusack is a bona-fide bad ass. The guy can throw those hands and feet. During the making of ConAir The Jet (the guy he fights in the school is actually world champion kickboxer and record holder for fastest kick) was the stunt coordinator and he would seperate Danny Trejo and John from the other actors that were playing covicts. When Danny asked why he was told those are guys that are pretending they can kick ass, you all can really kick ass and I dont want you all hurting one of them if the try to act tough with one of you. And the secretary is John's sister.
Never seen that one
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Worth a watch, for sure. It's hardly high-brow, but it's super-entertaining. John Malkovich is awesome, Steve Buscemi is creepy, and you've got Nicholas Cage with a cheesy southern accent; what's not to like?
Another good Joan Cusack film is her with Steve Martin and Rick Moranus in My Blue Heaven.
Great movie. But, Moranis because moranus looks horrible.
John Cusack is a real, trained kickboxer.
And the guy he was fighting is/was his trainer.
You’ve become such a movie savant compared to the first time I saw you in a video. I’m impressed!
My 50th reunion is coming up in 2024...like all the others I('ve purposely missed, I'll miss this one too! I couldn't get out of school fast enough for me and have no desire to be anywhere near it again. Great movie and great reaction, James...I love your reactions so much!
Hank Aziaria also does several of the Simosin's characters voices.
Including, Moe, Chief Wiggum, early Apu and several others.
my favorite movie... right next to bad santa... lovin it... grosse pointe is a town in michigan
Minsk. Phoebe's boyfriend went to Minsk. I hate that I can't remember if I switched off the stove but I remember that.
Jeremy Pivec, the principal from Old School, goes way back with John Cusack. From theater school in Chicago. Jeremy often shows up in John’s films.
one of my favorite movies!!
You'll find Cusak and Piven working together in a lot of movies. They both grew up in the same Chicago theater company that one of their mother's founded. I want to say it was Piven's mother.
Them and Steve Pink. Also part of the acting company young friends of Cusack. He’s in this and co-wrote/produced. Also in The Sure Thing. He’s directed a few good flicks.
Grosse Point, Michigan...it's a town
Yup they explained that
Love this movie. Love John Cusack. Thanks
Grosse Pointe is a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
Oh! And the drunk classmate they run into at the restaurant is their sister Ann Cusack.
Dan Aykroyd's best performance ever
RIP Alan Arkin
Great reaction to a fun movie.
I hope you watch my Little Miss Sunshine reaction. He's great in it.
"Her hair looks really nice..."
It's a small note, but both of the G-men are stoned 🤣🤣🤣
HIGH FIDELITY, the other film by the same guys, but directed by Stephen Frears....is worth checking out!
Alan Arkin (grandpa from
LMS) is such a great actor, and has been for a long time. He was in an Oscar winning film a little over ten years ago with a TON of other actors you’d recognize (John Goodman, Ben Affleck to name 2) called Argo, the true story of the CIA getting 6 embassy workers out of Tehran in 1979 by staging a fake movie production. Great film…drama, comedy, suspense, etc.
Arkin died June 29th of this year.
@@Lightningrod75 Bummer. That’s what I get for moving to the middle of nowhere.
Phoebes boyfriend is Hank Azaria who does a number of voices for the Simpsons.
New record for recognising people 🎉😄🏆
No way really??
I actually own this DVD. Love it
Didn't care that much for the follow up movie though.
“Bobby Beamer” played Abraham on the Walking Dead.
Work partner is Johns sister..great reaction
That's Hank Azaria his character name on Friends was David and he work on Minsk i think that is in Russia Hank also works on the Simpsons he does a lot of the characters voices his most famous character on the Simpsons was Apu the Kwik Mart owner
You recognized 8 people in this one, could have been 9 though but the 9th is a tough one. The woman who sits down with John Cusack and Minnie Driver at the restaurant is Ann Cusack (yes another one of John's sisters) who was Shirley Baker in A League of Their Own she was the woman who could not read.
The guy sent to kill Martin Blanke is long-time kungfu stunt man. I remember seeing him in a Jackie Chan film from the early 80s. Speaking of which, John Cusack was in Dragon Blade with Jackie Chan and Adrien Brody.
Grandbaby's first holiday? Enjoy and I hope you get a lot of photos.
its actually his Kick-boxing coach and friend.
@@paulhewes7333 That's so cool! Working with friends is awesome!
Not kung fu. He’s an ex-kickboxer turned actor. Comes from the same group as Don The Dragon Wilson and Chuck Norris. John Cusack even mentions him in Say Anything when talking about kickboxing being the sport of the future. They’ve been together for years at this point.
Hank Azaria is also on the "Simpsons", since you made a Quik-E-Mart reference.
They called me for my 25th reunion. The caller the school bully 25 years ago. I said I didn't like you then, & I'm not going to like you now. He said "I've changed. I'm not the man I used to be. I said stand up and say out loud 'I'm sorry I was the school Bully & Tormented everyone'. Click, the line went dead...
Funny
Love this movie
a $700 prom dress in 1987 would be almost $2000 today.
Dang that's expensive either way
I love this movie...following because your reaction was awesome!
Awesome! Thank you!
You seem pretty cool, I'm looking forward to watching more reactions.
Yay! No one ever reacts to this. It's high on the list of "Movies I like more than everyone else seems to," alongside The Fisher King and Joe Versus the Volcano, among others.
I skipped my ten year, (in a training academy several hours from home), and only went to the afterparty for my twenty year. Don't think my class had a 30. We'll see about 40.
I love love love this movie.
Hey, does anyone know the story behind the Doom II machine the guy in the store is playing? That's one of the greatest cinematic mysteries of all time.
Guy loosely based on Ash from Evil Dead fights aliens. That story ?
@@tempsitch5632The mystery is that Doom's a PC/console game. There was never an arcade machine of it. So where's the prop come from? Why build it special when there are plenty of violent arcade games they could have used?
Phoebe’s bf is Hank Azaria. He has a fun role as the butler in Robin William’s The Birdcage, but might be most well known for all the characters he voices on The Simpsons, including Apu, the owner of the Qwiki Mart, which is funny, because he’s sitting outside the Quicky Mart in this movie when it blows up.
And of course, Mystery Men.
@@peterspicer7603 Of course. Btw, what’s Mystery Men?
@@BDogg2023 It's a superhero comedy movie, which you might say features a "B team" of superheroes (all fictional). Also features Ben Stiller, Paul Reubens (a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman), Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy, Claire Forlani, Greg Kinnear, and Kel Mitchell, and Geoffrey Rush.
@@EricAKATheBelgianGuy Ah. He’s also Charlize Theron’s bf in Heat.
The movie "Mystery Men". It's a must see if you have not seen it. Ben Stiller, Hank Azaria, Paul Reubens, Geoffrey Rush, Eddie Izzard and Tom Waits all in one movie.@@BDogg2023
And the Pointe
Grosse Point is a city in Michigan.
THX need this Reaction of a GREAT Movie 👍👍👍
Hee. Seems like this is one of the few reactions to this film, where the host didn't jam out to (the soundtrack in general, and the Violent Femmes' "Blister In The Sun" in particular).
He doesn’t dare test youtube’s copyright policy.
You earned a sub, love your enjoyment
Welcome aboard!
@@AwesomeUSMovies thx so far so this reaction and the Austin powers reaction both great
Yhea I had a partner like that, miss her still
K&L Dairy
I would love to see you react to JoJo Rabbit.
I haven't been to a reunion. I didn't really like that many people in high school anyway.
John Wick prototype
If you reacted to the show Supernatural, you’d have content for the next few years.
I'm no expert, but I gather that the practice of offering a drink to the dead (aka "Pour one out for the homies") Is a common tradition in the Catholic faith... Anyone feel free to correct me. I've done it myself, to the general approval of any Catholic-raised people around.
I don't know... but I'd say in this case it wouldn't have anything to do with that and is more likely that his dad was an alcoholic.
If you liked this, then you will also like:
"Central Intelligence" (2016)
"Keeping Up With The Joneses" (2016) there is another unrelated movie with the same name from 2021
"Killers" (2010)
"R.E.D." (2010)
"The Whole Nine Yards" (2000)
"Cop Out" (2010)
If somebody puts something in a microwave to make an IED, why, in movies, does it always explode just as the microwave dings? I'd say it was humor, but it's even in some serious action movies. That is sooo much not how it works! Always takes me out of it.
Who knows maybe the radio waves need with the transceiver so when they stop it goes boom
@@AwesomeUSMovies It just seems like a bad trope, imo.
I call it the 'Jack in the Box' effect. It dings when the toy pops up,
@@sherigrow6480 Yeah, right? Pop goes the weasel. Maybe that's it, it matches a conditioned expectation, but it's fully stupid. It's just a movie, so that doesn't really matter, but it does show how little people pay attention or understand the world around them. Hasn't anybody ever blown stuff up before? It seems kids' stuff. Maybe I was rowdy.
Might I suggest some tvs shows. RESCUE ME, THE SHIELD, NIP TUCK. All were shows on FX all great shows. One about plastic surgeons one about crooked cops & one about Firefighters
Awesome shows now? Oh yeah!!!