High Fidelity

High Fidelity
by Stephen Frears

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Actor: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, John Cusack, Todd Louiso
Director: Stephen Frears
Brand: CUSACK,JOHN
Cinematographer: Howard Shore
Composer: Lili Taylor
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Touchstone / Disney

DVD Reviews of High Fidelity

DVD Review: TOP TWO MISTAKES IN HIGH FIDELITY
Summary: 5 Stars

"High Fidelity" is on my top-five all-time desert island movie list. After watching it for the millionth time, I came across two errors. First, at the beginning of the movie (Chapter 2), Laura leaves, Rob slams the door, and then tells us his top-five break-ups in chronological order, as follows: Alison Ashmore, Penny Hardwick, Jackie Alden, Charlie Nicholson, and Sarah Kendrew. Charlie Nicholson was actually number three, and Jackie Alden number four. (Rob's relationship with Jackie, you will recall, was a direct result of his entanglement with Charlie.) This error is corrected in Chapter four, when Rob correctly states that Charlie is number three.

The second miscue occurs in Chapter 10. This is the scene where Rob is cowering under his covers, imagining Laura having sex with Ian. Rob then turns to us and says that Jackie Alden was number five on his all-time list, that his affair with Ms. Alden had no effect on his life, and that he was glad it ended. Thus, by Chapter 10, the phantom-like Sarah Kendrew has vanished.

Anyway, I love this movie!

DVD Review: horrid
Summary: 1 Stars

I'm not a Cusack fan. At best he's tolerable.

THis movie was boring and painful to watch. It's about a lame depressed guy and his annoying friends with awful taste in music. was it supposed to be a comedy?

DVD Review: Charming....Really! Sensitivity Warning, though.
Summary: 5 Stars

I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. John Cusack is his usual charming man-next-door with issues. Jack Black plays his standard stick-it-to-the-man rebel with a heart. Three men with extreme and unnecessary music knowledge spend their days and nights together bantering, arguing and not living their lives. The "non-musical" are excluded from their club, and they even have issues with each other.

Throw a break-up with a long-term girlfriend in the mix and watch as the world begins to crash for Rob (Cusack). In his attempt to deal with reality, he decides, in lad-lit-style narration, to go back and revisit where he went wrong. He consults his Five Worst Break-ups and attempts to discover why he has such lousy luck with women.

Warning to the sensitive....and I hesitated to rent this because of the R rating for sex and language...you never really know how bad it's going to be. There are cloaked sex scenes, and one nightmare/daydream sex scene that is pretty brutal. The F-word is a main player but is not as tossed around as often as it could be.

Overall, there is clever dialogue and great insight into the way people think. I loved the exploration and growth that the main characters chose instead of the path of continued dysfunction and stagnancy. I laughed out loud several times.

If you love Cusack or Black and/or love films like About a Boy, and can handle above stated issues, I think you might find much to like in High Fidelity.

DVD Review: Bought it for one song...
Summary: 5 Stars

To be frank, I bought this album for "Let's Get It On" as performed by Jack Black. It has a lot of other good songs on it, too, which I have been known to listen to, but I really bought it because iTunes was going to force me to buy the whole album for the one song I wanted. It was cheaper to buy the CD and use iTunes' import feature.

DVD Review: EXCELLENT COMEDY WITH A GREAT CAST!
Summary: 4 Stars

Watching this film again now for the first time since it's released, I found this movie better than ever! The cast especially Cusack and Black are at the top of their game in this smart and relevant love story. Backed by a killer soundtrack this film is heads and shoulders above most romantic comedies. There are many dramas that with they rang as true as this film.

Description of High Fidelity

Follows the love affairs and belated growing up of a \""Generation X\"" pop music fanatic and record store owner.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 8-APR-2003
Media Type: DVD

Transplanted from England to the not-so-mean streets of Chicago, the screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's cult-classic novel High Fidelity emerges unscathed from its Americanization, idiosyncrasies intact, thanks to John Cusack's inimitable charm and a nimble, nifty screenplay (cowritten by Cusack). Early-thirtysomething Rob Gordon (Cusack) is a slacker who owns a vintage record shop, a massive collection of LPs, and innumerable top-five lists in his head. At the opening of the film, Rob recounts directly to the audience his all-time top-five breakups--which doesn't include his recent falling out with his girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle), who has just moved out of their apartment. Thunderstruck and obsessed with Laura's desertion (but loath to admit it), Rob begins a quest to confront the women who instigated the aforementioned top-five breakups to find out just what he did wrong.

Low on plot and high on self-discovery, High Fidelity takes a good 30 minutes or so to find its groove (not unlike Cusack's Grosse Pointe Blank), but once it does, it settles into it comfortably and builds a surprisingly touching momentum. Rob is basically a grown-up version of Cusack's character in Say Anything (who was told "Don't be a guy--be a man!"), and if you like Cusack's brand of smart-alecky romanticism, you'll automatically be won over (if you can handle Cusack's almost-nonstop talking to the camera). Still, it's hard not to be moved by Rob's plight. At the beginning of the film he and his coworkers at the record store (played hilariously by Jack Black and Todd Louiso) seem like overgrown boys in their secret clubhouse; by the end, they've grown up considerably, with a clear-eyed view of life. Ably directed by Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons), High Fidelity features a notable supporting cast of the women in Rob's life, including the striking, Danish-born Hjejle, Lisa Bonet as a sultry singer-songwriter, and the triumphant triumvirate of Lili Taylor, Joelle Carter, and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Rob's ex-girlfriends. With brief cameos by Tim Robbins as Laura's new, New Age boyfriend and Bruce Springsteen as himself. --Mark Englehart

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