any good suggestions? It's romantic friday!
2007-06-01 05:02:18 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Romantic / Action / Comedy all rolled into one -
"Grosse Pointe Blank" with John Cusak, Minnie Driver, and Dan Akroyd.
"John Cusack - as the film's protagonist Martin Blank - is superb, & virtually carries the whole movie. He plays an assassin who started out working for the U.S. Government but has now gone freelance, having managed to rationalise his cold-blooded killing. He is an amoral, sharp, ruthless killer, but also vulnerably human, neurotic, conscience-ridden, tender & romantic. Despite these ostensibly impossible personality contradictions, you never once question that his character is real, you can't help but like the guy, & never stop hoping that things work out for him. Pulling this off is a remarkable achievement & Cusack does it brilliantly.
He reluctantly accepts a commission that takes him back to his hometown, Grosse Pointe, coincidentally at exactly the same time as his old High School reunion. While there he visits his childhood sweetheart, local DJ Debi (Driver), for the first time in 10 years – when in a fit of madness he had ditched her on their prom night to run off & join the army. As neither she nor anyone else had heard anything from him since then, her feelings about this are understandably rather mixed!
Blank visits his institutionalised Mum & the family home, which to his great distress is now an ‘Ultimart', & eventually convinces Debi to go with him to the reunion. His reacquaintances with his former schoolmates are very funny & even quite touching, & are sure to strike a chord with anyone who's ever been to one of those things.
Meanwhile various other assassins, chief of which is Blank's rival Grocer (Ackroyd – brilliant as ever) are out to kill him. Their reasons are many & varied – mainly involving an ‘Assassin's union', secret Government operations & a dead dog (yes, really!). As you can probably guess, these are not the sort of things that are conducive to a successful High School reunion, & mayhem ensues.
‘Grosse Pointe Blank' is extremely funny, full of deadpan, twisted humour - mainly from Cusack, but ably supported by Ackroyd & Arkin. I particularly liked the running gag of Blank's response to the inevitable "what do you do for a living?" question: a completely matter-of-fact "professional killer", which of course not one person takes seriously. I also loved the hilariously neurotic exchanges between Blank & his hounded shrink (Arkin), who ends every conversation with "Don't kill anyone!" There's also a lovely little story involving a pen...
The film is also a great action flick - it has some brilliantly choreographed & executed gunfight & hand-to-hand fight sequences – in fact some of the best I've ever seen. Cusack looks, or at least is made to look, like a pretty decent athlete himself. The finale is a real tour-de-force, & for me sums up the movie itself: a great gunfight, clever & hilariously funny.
This film is wonderful from start to finish – if you haven't done so already, see it now!" Greg Lord of Brighton England
I couldn't have said it much better
2007-06-01 05:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by blue26 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A Little Romance
A George Roy Hill Film starring Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard, Sally Kellerman. 1979
2007-06-01 12:14:18 · answer #2 · answered by slave2art 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only You with Robert Downing Jr. and Marisa Tome(sw) is a great romantic comedy!!!
2007-06-01 12:08:37 · answer #3 · answered by gemesomemo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try Almost Heaven with Reese Witherspoon.
2007-06-01 12:09:33 · answer #4 · answered by Kerry 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I liked Deja Vu with Denzel Washington.
2007-06-01 12:04:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio is amazing-romantic, contemporary and cool. And I'm a guy and still say that.
2007-06-01 12:07:52 · answer #6 · answered by Vandat 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For a Good time,feel good movie try the classics,The Blues Brothers or Caddyshack,yes their old movies but their good movies see them!
2007-06-01 12:32:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe The Holiday or Catch and Release.
2007-06-01 12:22:45 · answer #8 · answered by TJ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Lake House is a good one if you're looking for a love story.
2007-06-01 12:05:17 · answer #9 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
my husband and i both liked Love Actually.....it's a few years old, but a nice love story
2007-06-01 12:17:22 · answer #10 · answered by Kirsten 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋