Grosse Pointe Blank pumped the Gen X rom-com full of lead 25 years ago. Here's IllusiveKen on the charming, Cusack-filled hitman comedy:
, but for those one rung further up the socioeconomic ladder, or perhaps another five or so years further on in an uneventful life. It’s the single movie by screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz, who died unexpectedly in 2013 at just 49, and it has the peculiar and singular feel of one guy’s fun idea.
Blank has until court convenes the Monday after to kill whoever’s dossier is inside the red envelope. Contrary to his protests, though, he doesn’t even bother to open the thing. Instead, he returns to his hometown to find desolation: His childhood home has been turned into a convenience store . His mother spends her days tripping balls in an old folks’ home and can barely remember him. His friends from high school are working soul-deadening jobs that provide no real satisfaction.
As he prepares for the fateful night at the reunion with Debi, Blank riffs on all the happy little platitudes he’s going to say through gritted teeth: He imagines the inane jobs he could say he has, he practices deflecting from the fact that he’s unmarried, childless and possesses basically none of the signifiers of a successful man.
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