film, directed by George Armitage
, and starring John Cusack
and Minnie Driver
.
In 2000, readers of Total Film
magazine voted Grosse Pointe Blank the 21st greatest comedy film of all time. The film's soundtrack features mainly independent music hits from the 1980s.
Professional assassin Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack
) finds himself depressed, irritable, dissatisfied with his work.
If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.
I guess you could say I went west. You know, the way of Horatio Alger, Davy Crockett, the Donner Party...
When I left, I joined the army, and when I took the service exam my psych profile fit a certain... moral flexibility would be the only way to describe it... and I was loaned out to a CIA-sponsored program, and we sort of found each other. That's how it works.
I know what I do isn't... moral, per se...
You can never go home again, Oatman... but I guess you can shop there.
I just honestly don't know what I have in common with those people anymore... or with anyone, really. I mean, they'll all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they'll have made themselves a part of something, and they can talk about what they do. And what am I going to say? "I killed the president of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?" I just think it'll be depressing.
[to himself, rehearsing] "Hi! I’m Martin Blank, do you remember me? I’m not married, I don’t have any kids, and I’d blow your head off if someone paid me enough."
A thousand innocent people get killed every day, but a millionaire's pet gets detonated and you're marked for life.
Everybody's coming back to take stock of their lives. You know what I say? Leave your livestock alone.
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's... well... broken.