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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]
Together, Pink, Cusack and DeVincentis formed a production company, New Crime Productions, which produced both Grosse Pointe Blank and High Fidelity. In 2010, he directed Hot Tub Time Machine, and its sequel Hot Tub Time Machine 2 in 2015. [1] He was also a producer on the 20th Century Fox release Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron ...
Minnie Driver is opening up about the impact making Grosse Pointe Blank had on her — and how writer and costar John Cusack managed to save the film.. On the latest episode of James Corden’s ...
When it comes to Minnie Driver's varied acting career, one film stands out as being particularly "revolutionary" to her: Grosse Pointe Blank.The reason, as she puts it, is that the film was almost ...
The largest naval battle in history, according to gross tonnage sunk, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, occurred when Allied forces began liberating the Philippines from the Japanese Empire. [ 128 ] [ 129 ] Battles on the islands entailed long fierce fighting and some of the Japanese continued to fight after the official surrender of the Empire of ...
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Biag ni Lam-ang (lit. ' The Life of Lam-ang ') is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in written form, and was one of only two folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.