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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]
Set in and filmed in the Detroit area including the cities of Center Line, Royal Oak, Highland Park and Grosse Pointe. (#1 film) Gridlock'd. 1997. Grosse Pointe Blank, George Armitage 1997. John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Hank Azaria, K. Todd Freeman, Jeremy Piven. Set in Grosse Pointe. Hoffa, Danny DeVito. 1992.
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 ...
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 ...
George Brendan Armitage (born March 2, 1942) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed the films Miami Blues (1990) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997). He worked frequently with Roger Corman .
Singer-songwriter Anita Baker’s residence in the Grosse Pointes hit the market Nov. 14 priced at $1.8 million. The 7,324 -square-foot lakefront property built in 1987 occupies the site once ...