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Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American black comedy film directed by George Armitage from a screenplay by Tom Jankiewicz, D. V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink and John Cusack.It stars Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, and Dan Aykroyd and follows the story of assassin Martin Q. Blank (Cusack), who returns to his hometown of Grosse Pointe, Michigan to attend a high school reunion.
Jankiewicz wrote the initial script for Grosse Pointe Blank in 1991 after receiving an invitation to his 10th high school reunion. [3] He picked the film's title, "Grosse Pointe Blank", while substitute teaching for an English class at Upland High School by writing the title on the classroom's whiteboard to see how it would look on a movie theater. [3]
On the latest episode of SiriusXM's This Life of Mine with James Corden, Driver opened up about what led to this wild way of making the 1997 black comedy, which stars John Cusack as a hitman who ...
Black Belt magazine voted Urquidez "Competitor of the Year" in 1978. [7] In 2019, he was inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame. [8] He has appeared in occasional acting roles, including the Jackie Chan movies Wheels on Meals (1984) and Dragons Forever (1988), and played a hitman in George Armitage's Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). [9]
Get ready for Grosse Pointe’s best starring role since the 1997 film “Grosse Pointe Blank.” ... ("Last Man Standing"). ... 20-year-old Californian Alex Michelsen beats a 2nd top-20 seed at ...
First, there was "Grosse Pointe Blank," a movie about a professional assassin (John Cusack) who goes to his high school reunion. Now there's a chance "Grosse Pointe Garden Club," which also has ...
The film holds a score of 93% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 40 reviews with an average rating of 8.3/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Shot with hard-hitting inventiveness and performed with pitiless cool by Lee Marvin, Point Blank is a revenge thriller that exemplifies the genre's strengths with extreme prejudice."
A Grosse Pointe Park businessman who laundered $10 million in drug sales that prosecutors say bankrolled his lavish lifestyle — and helped pay his court-ordered child support — got a big break ...