High Fidelity From:John Cusack , Iben Hjejle , Jack Black , Catherine Zeta-Jones , Todd Louiso , CUSACK,JOHN , Stephen Frears , Touchstone / Disney ,
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CUSACK,JOHN
EAN: 0717951009944
Format: Closed-captioned
Format: Color
Format: DVD-Video
Format: Widescreen
Format: NTSC
Label: Touchstone / Disney
Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Touchstone / Disney
Number Of Items: 1
Packaged Height: 50 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 740 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 25 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 540 hundredths-inches
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2000-09-08
Running Time: 114 minutes
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Product Description:
From the guys who brought you GROSSE POINTE BLANK comes the absolutely hilarious HIGH FIDELITY. John Cusack (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) stars as Rob Gordon, the owner of a semi-failing record store located on one of the back streets of Chicago. He sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl, with two wacky clerks, the hysterically funny rock snob Barry (Jack Black) and the more quietly opinionated underachiever Dick (Todd Luiso). But Rob's business isn't the only thing in his life that's floundering -- his needle skips the love groove when his longtime girlfriend Laura (newcomer Iben Hjejle) walks out on him. And this forces him to examine his past failed attempts at romance the only way he knows how! For a rocking fun time, give HIGH FIDELITY a spin. It's sure to make your all-time top five list for comedies -- with a bullet.
Customer Reviews:
1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 He's grumpy, he's broke, he hangs out with the musical moron twins... , 2008-11-02
2000 brought us High Fidelity, the movie adaptation of the popular book by Nick Hornby of the same title. The tale of Rob Gordon(John Cusak) a socially awkward, music elitist who owns a small vinyl record store.
When his live-in girlfriend Laura(Iben Hjejle) leaves him, Rob begins to further to wallow in his own sadness by relieving his top five heartbreaks and rejections. From his first junior high girlfriend of three days to the woman who can never be single but left him for a better option, Rob is set on deciphering exactly what it is about him that always leaves him rejected.
Perhaps a slow and boring plot to some, High Fidelity is carried if nothing more, by the brilliance and pathetic portrayal of Cusak. The way this man can ramble, list and explain must be an art!
Not to mention a brilliant soundtrack boasting hits by The Kinks, The Velvet Underground, and Stereolab; they all fit the tales of Rob Gordon's past rejections perfectly.
"It would be nice to think that since I was 14, times have changed. Relationships have become more sophisticated. Females less cruel. Skins thicker. Instincts more developed. But there seems to be an element of that afternoon in everything that's happened to me since. All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one."
For the music elitists, those of us who still search for a favorite disk on vinyl, or anyone who still evaluates their past, mistakes and all.
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