Feeling Blue

Whenever I feel like crap i like to pop in one of my favorite movies and kick back...

This week i revisited a fantastic film called Grosse Pointe Blank...basically the plot consists of a character named Martin Blank (played by John Cusack totally underrated actor) a freelance hit man who starts to develop a conscience, while in the middle of an existential meltdown, which causes him to muff a couple of routine assignments. On the advice of his secretary (played by his sister Joan Cusack) and his psychiatrist (Alan Arkin), he decides to attend his 10th year High School reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan and try to rekindle the love of his life "Debbie" (played by Minnie Driver) that he left on Prom Night to Join the Army (Grosse Pointe is a Detroit suburb where he's also contracted to kill someone which, ironically turns out to be his ex-girlfriends father). Hot on his tail are a couple of over-enthusiastic federal agents who want to use him as an example, another assassin who was hired to kill him for accidentally killing a millionaires pet dog , and Grocer (Played by Dan Ackroyd), a fellow assassin who wants him to join an "Assassin's Union." which of course he has no desire to join. The whole movie culminates in a three way showdown. The movie is fucking great, and on a personal note I identify with Martin on many levels and it always makes me feel better after i see it.

If you haven't seen this movie rent it! If you have and didn't like it well......... fuck you!

Later...