Professional assassin Martin
Blank (John Cusack) discovers that his next job is in his home town on the same
weekend as his ten year high school reunion and to kill the proverbial birds,
decides to head back to the Detroit
suburb of Grosse Pointe from which he fled a decade earlier. He tracks down his
high school sweetheart Debi (Minnie Driver) who now works as a local radio host
and attempts to undo the damage caused by standing her up on prom night. While
in town Martin finds himself under the watch of several assassins as well as
two NSA Agents but despite the danger is desperate to win back his girl.
Grosse Pointe Blank was a better film than I expected it to be. I’m
not a huge fan of John Cusack and would never seek out a film because Minnie
Driver was in it. I knew nothing about the story but the most 90s poster in I’ve
ever seen did little to wet my appetite. The film is rarely funny and the plot
is fairly inconsequential but I enjoyed the chemistry of the two leads as well
as the 80s soundtrack and overall was charmed by the movie.
