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Grosse Pointe Blank (Patreon)

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TheLeftPecOfTheLord

“You can never go home again Oatman, but I guess you can shop there” God I love this movie so much

Patrick

This is exactly what hungover me needs right now.

jmundt33a

John and Joan actually have a history of working together as far back as Sixteen Candles. Joan wore the neck brace and John was one of Ted’s photography pals, I think.

David

This is my favorite movie of all time.

jmundt33a

I’m surprised Simone didn’t recognize Trick off the Bonn conversation. Second scene, though. Recognized Cudlitz right off, though. Context clues suggest Daddy Blank was an abusive drunk. For the record, Ethan Frome is horrific. I’m surprised the English teacher is fondly regarded by her older former students.

jmundt33a

This is five years before Serendipity. New only to George, it has little chance of making the channnel. Too bad. Kate Beckinsale, Bridget Moynihan, Molly Shannon, John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, Eugene Levy, and John Corbett.

mojo shivers

Top 3 film no doubt. It’s this, In Bruges, and Joe Versus the Volcano. It’s also probably top 3 film I’ve watched the most too since I have a best friend who’s the biggest Cusack fan. She made me watch this 30-40 times with her and I probably watched it 20-30 times on my own. It’s just a funny, action-filled, romantic, 80’s nostalgia bait kind of film. Right up my alley.

Jeff K.

I've been waiting for you guys to react to this movie for TEN YEARS, MAN! TEN!

jmundt33a

For a similar vibe, I recommend Mr. Right with Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell. Great fun.

jmundt33a

And Papa-in-law is from Liar Liar.

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

Been a while since checking this out but it’s as darkly fun as I remember it being. Love John Cusack and I will say my fave movie of his (also in my top 5 😉) to check out is “High Fidelity”- the movie which helped to break Jack Black to the masses ahead of his star turn in “School of Rock”. I also forgot how awesome the soundtrack was for this film: The Violet Femmes, A-Ha and The Jam to name a few highlights. Excellent stuff! Also hope Simone feels better by the time this has come about 👊

UnSafeStu

Love this movie. So many lines are in constant rotation in my head. Yup, High Fidelity next please

Chris G

Great reaction to a really fun movie. Next, check out Mr. Right with Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick, and Tim Roth. It's like a spiritual successor to Grosse Pointe Blank.

John DelVecchio

Please check out “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Jack Nicholson and an amazing cast.

JoeNotCharles

There was a third Cusack in this movie too - the drunk woman in the restaurant was their sister Ann.

Jeff K.

Who they might also remember for playing Chuck’s ex-wife in BCS.

Forsythe

Another dark comedy (but really, really dark) from this late 90s era is "Very Bad Things." I saw it with my sister in a mostly empty theater in Florida. By the end of the movie, my sister & I were laughing our heads off while everyone around us was not. It's very, very dark.

SuPaTiLt

She was also the one Simone pointed out for doing the silly dance at the reunion

Matt O'Keefe

The first movie with John and Joan was Sixteen Candles. Simone and George might want to avoid that one. It is of it's time you might say.

beecroft adams

You should watch High Fidelity next.

G T

OH THANK YOU FOR THIS!.. this is a childhood favourite of mine. I don't know if it's going to hold up to a rewatch but I hope it does, every girl I met I wanted to be like Minniei Driver in this movie... Sadly they ended up being more like Amy Dunn in Gone Girl haha

Robert Elliott

This is one of my favorites, the humor, all amazing actors, music thru out the BEST. How you learn of m

Robert Cooper

I think probably more than a lot of movies, this captures the Gen X thing perfectly. I don't think younger people realize that for a particular generation, casual sarcasm was our entire mode of operation for a couple decades and it is always funny to see people mildly confused by it. This is also a top 5 soundtrack movie.

John Wiese

The title has multiple play on words. Grosse Pointe is the town in Michigan that this takes place, Point(e) Blank is a shooting term, and Blank is Martin’s last name.

Spacedone

A few trivia bits not mentioned: Bob the bully was played by the same actor who played Bull Randleman in Band of Brothers. The assassin who he kills at the reunion was played former professional kickboxer and martial arts coordinator Benny "The Jet" Urquidez who also happened to be John Cusack's real-life kickboxing instructor, which made the fight scene a little more realistic since both men were used to sparring.

JH

Hooooooooleeeeeey sheeeit! I can’t believe you finally got this one done! I’m so happy! Lol thanks for the work and reaction, George, Simone!

JH

Damn Skippy! Right on all fronts!

JH

Also I believe the outside of Martin’s high school is the same outside used in many episodes of Boy Meets World, for the highschool they use in the show

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

Now we need to see one of the movies where Jackie Chan fights Benny Urquidez (Wheels on Meals, Dragons Forever) 😁

Brandon

I grew up listening to a lot of metal and this movie's soundtrack helped get me into some different stuff. RIP to Joe Strummer, who did the score. Steve Pink is listed as a co-producer, who would go on to direct Cusack in Hot Tub Time Machine. There's a great sound design joke when Martin sees the store where his house used to be. When he drives up, the Guns n' Roses version of Live and Let Die is playing. As he walks into the store, the song transitions into a cheesy elevator/grocery store muzak version of the song. The kind of thing you would hear in the 80's and 90's in stores in place of real radio stations. The Pulp Fiction cardboard standee in the store is pretty funny. For some reason Samuel L. Jackson isn't wearing the Jheri curl wig he used for Jules' hairstyle in the movie.

Elvenwitch

The couple wearing wedding gear more than likely were high school sweethearts who got married right after graduation.

Slick

Loved this reaction! More Assassin based Rom Coms you should check out: Mr Right and Killers

JH

Also: Bob is played by Michael Cudlitz, or Abraham from AMC’s The Waking Dead and SGT Denver "Bull" Randleman from Band Of Brothers. Moreover, John and Joan Cusack’s two other siblings play in this film: Amy(Drunk former acquaintance of Debi and Martin that intrudes on their time in at the bar) and The Waiter there, are played by Ann and Bill Cusack, John and Joan’s sister and brother, respectively…

TomGas2025

I sae that Movie once on TV...had no idea what that was about and kept watching and watching. The Movie was over and never saw it again...never even found it in a videostore. Grossly missmanaged movie.

sheriffjt

I realized I had just been staring at the kitten chewing on the other cat for several minutes

JBK405

I went to my 10 year AND 20 year high school reunions. They were both...okay. They were at restaurants/bars in town, not at the school itself, and it was a few hours of "How've you been? Good! How about you?" There were no life-changing events at either. If I'd missed them I don't think my life would have been poorer for it, but I also don't regret going to them.

Chase Lonnergan

Just nitpicking, but this is about a half-second out of sync. You guys repeatedly react to things right before they happen.

Brendan

So glad you did this movie. Hope you feel better Simone

Steve Mercier

Looooooooooooooooooove this movie. "They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? 'I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?'"

JamesJ

Mr. Right! Yes!

Lars G

George asked if someone's house has ever shown up in a movie. I have two good friends that have their house in the new HBO show Task. They just had a location scout show up at their door randomly and ask if they could use it to film. Apparently it was a cool experience, although they essentially moved all their furniture out and brought in their own props to stage everything. Plus their house essentially became a film set for a few days and everything that entailed.

Zinphad

Good friends help you move, great friends help you move bodies.

Liquor & Swords

Hey, on this same theme, check out Coldblooded, you will not regret it!

stixnbrews

Love this movie! As someone who graduated in 1986, it was a must see for me. I have seen it so many times since. One bit of trivia - when Martin is going into the Ultramart, GnR's "Live and Let DIe" is playing and then it switches to a Musak version playng in the background of the store.

Brandon

Another great Cusack movie is The Sure Thing. Directed by Rob Reiner in between This is Spinal Tap and Stand By Me. It's an underrated 80's rom-com where he also has great chemistry with his co-star (Daphne Zuniga, Princess Vespa from Spaceballs). There's also Say Anything, which is a rom-com with a bit more of a serious dramatic tone to it. It has one of the most iconic images of Cusack from his entire career.

João Rafael Ferreira

I kind of got used to this over time. Even with the great no sync versions I still use the my own copy ones cause thats the way i prefer. They're always kind of a second ahead 90% of the reactions, but on many of them its not noticeble depending on the kind or genre of the show/movie. I dont know if its the same for the no sync versions. Personaly it does not bother me anymore cause o just correct it automatically in the begining. But its interesting to see someone else pointing that out cause I thought I was crazy kkkk

Chase Lonnergan

I'm a music video editor, so that kind of thing just jumps out at me . Lol.

No0neAtAll

Going to recommend 2 more John Cusack comedies for future polls. Better off Dead and One Crazy Summer

Ricardo Alanis

I only saw this once before and appreciated it much more now and killer soundtrack. Two other Cusack movies I recommend are “High Fidelity” and “Identity”.

Jayson Phillips

Classic greatness! One of my fav movies!

Jayson Phillips

Never had my house in a movie but my mother in-law was in the movie Pure Country lol

JoeE

Always liked the fight scene in this movie, looked realistic and you could see what was happening

jmundt33a

First Wives Club to commemorate Diane Keaton who passed today?

Weirdo

I hadn't seen this in probably twenty years. I think I liked it even better now. John Cusack's always one of my favorite actors and it was a treat to see him and his sister together on-screen. Dan Akroyd being absolutely unhinged is great. This and High Fidelity are some of the best Cusacks.

Drew

This had a lot of airtime on the cable movie channels, I was 10-11 at the time. I’d forgotten how much this influenced my “comedy DNA”, my “oh f•ck you guys!” is Dan Ackroyd in the bathroom scene.

Peter Hudson

Movie's awesome. You two should watch High Fidelity sometime soon; made by the same people and a kind-of romantic comedy (one of the best!)

Jacob King

This has been a favourite of mine since it came out. High Fidelity is the John Cusack movie I’d recommend next. It’s like the happy medium between this and Serendipity. John Cusack is extremely underrated as an actor which is weird because everyone loves him but he should have had so many more of these types of films. Two other hit man romcoms I can recommend are Mr. Right (Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick) and Wild Target (Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt).

Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

"War Inc." was called "the spiritual cousin of GPB" by John Cusack. Obviously is not as good 😄. Awesome reaction! Hope you feel better Simone, keep the kittens close for healing powers 😁

Drew Acheson

A good Minnie Driver movie that Simone would enjoy is Return To Me.

rictus grin

still a great movie, The Sure Thing is an early John Cusack movie well worth the watch

lovemoose

i'd like to recommend The Shadow's Edge (2025) starring Jackie Chan. I haven't seen it because it had a very limited release in the us so that's why im recommending so i can watch through your guy's reaction hahahaha

Craig Motbey

For more of Minnie Driver, see 1998’s The Governess. Period romance set in 1830’s Scotland, spectacularly good costuming.

Angzarr

One of my favorite gags in this movie! I'm a little sad they missed it.

James W.

This movie is dope, I am so happy y'all watched it. I watch a silly amount of reactions and never see this pop up. Another couple movies from around the same time that had a similarly weird vibe are, 'Zero Effect' with Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller and 'Clay Pigeons' with Joaquin Phoenix and Vince Vaughn They all came out within a year of each and I wish they got more recognition because they were different from everything else coming out at the time. In sea of samey movies they made oddball stuff like these that I think hold up really well compared to a lot of the films of the time. John Cusack had a run in the late 90s- early 00s. Growing up watching him in 80s films and then seeing him move into films like GPB and High Fidelity was a little surprising but for a minute that dude was just dropping bangers. I love the connection y'all made to John Wick's equally preposterous universe, too many parallels to be a coincidence. It also feels like Bill Hader was inspired by this film a bit by this film for Barry. Minnie Driver's characters in this and Good Will hunting are insanely magnetic and she had such awesome chemistry with her scene partners that even when you know they are bad for her, you are still rooting for them. She has stayed working but I was sure she would be the next big leading lady. Not sure of she was one of the many caught in the wake of gross execs like Weinstein who stunted the careers actresses that didn't bend to their creep-ass will or if she just decided she didn't a big flashy career but to this day I get stoked whenever I see her pop up. She is great.

Erik Brown

This is one of my top 25, so glad you seemed to have a good time reacting to it. Another similarly goofy fun movie is "Midnight Run" with Charles Grodin and Robert De Niro.

Mike C

Two sides of the same unhinged coin (and One Crazy Summer is the better of the two imo)

Angzarr

Yeah, so much better than most modern fight scenes!/

Mike C

I still think this is the best use of 99 luftballoons in a movie ever, especially as it uses the original German version, which everyone at the time knew was the superior version, even if we didn’t understand the words.

Angzarr

Yes and yes! While other generations clearly can enjoy it, I think it's special to Gen X's in a way they won't get. Even more so with the passage of time. It's been a long time since I'd seen it and I was pretty sure it was going to hold up well, but man, it aged like fine wine.

Angzarr

I never watched Dharma and Greg, but I do know he was Greg's dad in that, and Dharma was played by Jenna Elfman, who was the crazy lady in the neck brace at the reunion! Also, I think not only are they they're right about the John Wick thing, but my head canon is that the Martin/Dr. Oatman relationship was the inspiration for the movie Analyze This.

Angzarr

I don't know anyone whose house was in a movie, but I have two weirder ones: - My uncle's firetruck was in a Barry Levinson movie. - Some cows I used to walk by were in a Mel Gibson movie.

MoulinNoir

ah this one is high on my "underrated favorites" list

Kinokind

Seconding Romy and Michelle!

Kinokind

First: Simone, hope you feel better! Second, that's a kitten! Third, You know you're having a good life when you can sit down with a rum and coke and a bag of chips and watch two of your favorite reactors watch one of your favorite movies! I am appalled to say that next week is my 50th high school reunion. i am not going. I found in the past when I went, that no one had improved and everyone was exactly the same, just old. Anyway, Fun Facts: The only real Grosse Pointe footage is them driving along the river and in front of mansions at the beginning and end. That's Lakeshore Drive in Grosse Pointe. I've driven it many times. The store fronts are actually in California, but look so much like the actual Grosse Pointe that I had to check to see where it was shot. The guy Cusack fights was the stunt coordinator, a world champion marshal artist and Cusack's karate teacher. Finally, this movie has one of the greatest soundtracks in all of film. That's what happens when you let someone like Joe Strummer supervise for you!

nossieboy

The theory of the psychiatrist and the assistant being entities of Blank’s broken psyche are relevent theories with George’s addition on them never being in contact with anyone else. Never heard it before and am impressed with the fly on the wall perceptions being creations of Blank’s imagination.

Vwlss Nvwls

I remember seeing this in the theater, and it was such an odd surprise. I love this one so very much.

James W.

Michael Cudlitz is the name of the actor who plays Bob "Bobby Beemer" Distapalo, the coked up ex-bully turned poet. His only has a few scenes but that character is so good it is who I associated him with for years until he showed as Bull Randalman in Band of Brothers, one of the best characters in a show stacked with amazing characters. Then Abraham in The Walking Dead and just everywhere to be honest. Dude is a hard working actor. Even in a mid movie or show he will be one of the redeeming qualities. His delivery in this makes me laugh manby watches and 27ish years later.

gfixler

I jumped when those paws came in at 1:12:14.

jmundt33a

And, unless Blank is dissociating old school Norman Bates style, Marva talks to suppliers and a gal pal about cooking. While superficially interesting, I file this theory with the “Sandy’s dead/they’re all dead” theory of Grease.

jmundt33a

It’s also the night a year apart where everything happens in The Crow. And one of the subjects of media panic in the 1990s

jmundt33a

De Niro doesn’t let it be that goofy.

jmundt33a

And a third. Those two films blazed a trail (with an assist from Wedding Singer) that held strong until Music and Lyrics.

jmundt33a

No. War Inc. was the worthless vampire that sucked the soul out of GPB to spit ashes in the audience’s face. You could tell I’m bitter about that? GOOD 🤬🤯

jmundt33a

Yes to both. I’d suggest The Girl in the Cafe if you’re looking for romance with Bill Nighy at the center. It may seem painfully earnest and naive after two decades, but it’s well worth the watch.

jmundt33a

Yes to Mr. Right. No to Killers. That does its best to punish its own audience. Mr. & Mrs. Smith is preferable. Undercover Blues is WAY more fun.

Doug

Great movie, one of my favourites. I think the frenetic, tetchy pace reflects Martin's mind, he's constantly on edge and on the look out due to the world potentially being out to kill him and so the energy of the movie reflects that. John and Joan Cusack have actually appeared in 10 films together!

Philipp Roensch

Ok, this one is weird and definitely written on with and around coke. What a silly little film, a lot of off-hand jokes that just fly by. They also went silly with the action, the gun play was just cartoonish :D. The chemistry and characters are great, really captures every outcome and more for a 10 years later re-union. The message is odd though, the movie is anti-union? (unless romantically) I guess Debbie's father is a valuable witness for something, but he definitely did bad stuff, is rich and Martin did not want to join the hitman unions so badly? I think he still has to work on himself instead of giving himself therapy^^.

Brandon

I still remember him from being in the "Steroids Awareness" episode of 90210 in the early 90's when I was still a kid. 😆

Matt O'Keefe

My small private high school has reunions every 5 years for each class. My class had like 72 students in its graduating class. I have not been to one in over 10 years. My class had their 30th last year. I know you can look them up George, but the point is you all get together to see each other in person. It can be fun.

R. Chang

A good friend will help you move. A great friend will help you move a body.

R. Chang

Oh, man. I was just thinking about both Clay Pigeons and Zero Effect. I'd love it if they reacted to Zero Effect, but it's so obscure, I don't know that it would do good numbers. And along with those movies, I also think about the movie Goodbye Lover (1998), with Ellen Degeneres. It was the era of comedians doing dark, twisty dramedies.

lovemoose

you should watch 2012. it's my favorite disaster movie.

jmundt33a

Circle of Friends is another pretty good Minnie Driver film.

Angzarr

Avalon, when the store burns down.

nossieboy

The psychiatrist not picking up the phone twice with one time having a crying client doesn’t negate the theory.

Cosmic Slice

Yeah, all of the Cusack siblings are actors as was their dad. Their mom, passed in 2022 and she was an incredible woman. A mathematics professor, athlete as well as a political and social activist for civil rights, women's rights and nuclear disarmament.

jmundt33a

Like eclipses don’t “negate” the flat earth theory?

nossieboy

Your argument of the assistant talking recipes to a friend after the call could also be a part of Blank’s imagination. Hey it’s just a theory they came up with. It’s fun.

jmundt33a

True. It’s a lot of fun. There’s a whole lot less inner conflict in that one.

jmundt33a

And Greg’s mom was Christine Baranski. They were proto-Gilmores.

Sean Hennessy

As you liked this, check out High Fidelity. Another "dark" romantic "comedy" that has a lot of good music.

Angzarr

Ooh, Zero Effect! I’d be up for a reaction to that one! I bet they’d enjoy it too. Sadly not many people seem to know about it, so I doubt it would have a chance in polls. I still think about the various bits of advice Bill Pullman’s character gives (no spoilers!)

James W.

There was a pilot for a TV version made waaaay back but never saw the light of day. I would love to see what they tried to do. 10 or 15 years later we see a whole bunch of reinventions of Sherlock Holmes which seem an awful lot like they riffed off of Zero Effect.

Wally Hartshorn

I've always loved this movie. (I'm from the class of '81, so the music was the soundtrack of my youth.) Your reaction was perfect! A different reactor (I forget which one) didn't like it because they apparently were expecting it to be like "Pulp Fiction". That's a great movie, yes, but this is basically a romantic comedy with some gunplay in the background. It's not trying to be "Pulp Fiction". It's like complaining that an apple doesn't taste like an orange. Incidentally, I've noticed that your reactions seemed to be happening just a fraction of a second early. I was doing the watch-along with my own copy of the movie (so I can adjust the volume), and the video seemed to exactly match your video. However, when something funny or shocking would happen, your laughter or shocked expression seemed to happen at exactly the same instant. I ended up pausing your video for a fraction of a second, then unpaused so that the timing of your reactions seemed more natural. Perhaps you just have lightning quick reflexes. :-)

DCray

George, you said the same thing about that actor (Michael Cudlitz) looking like Sean Astin in Band of Brothers! He played Sergeant Randleman aka "the Bull". What is funny is Simone disagreed with you multiple times back then that he looks like Sean Astin and this time she agreed straight away!

nossieboy

My point is if these two people are creations of his mind then he is imagining what is going on in the dr’s office whilst he doesn’t pick up the phone.

cincassette

You guys should definitely watch 'Being John Malkovich' soon... I'd say probably one of my favourite John Cusack performances! Side note: has Simone already watched 'The Royal Tenenbaums'? Because that’s definitely a portrait of Margot Tenenbaum in the background. It’d be great if you guys returned to some Wes Anderson, as it’s been quite a while!

Angzarr

Being John Malkovich is amazing. Totally unique and bonkers.

Jeffrey

I love everything about this movie. The dry homor, the awkwardness, the fantastic music, and the performances. Fun fact: I went to high school with the woman in the back brace (Jenna Elfman.)