High Fidelity

Pros: Get inside a guy's head for a couple of hours.
Cons: An odd movie with direct audience contact.

Girlfriends . . . you want to watch High Fidelity. This is a movie where you get inside a guy’s head and see what makes the other half tick. Well, it’s a chance to see what makes a hot guy tick anyway. Guys who aren’t chick magnets generally can’t ...

Pros: Zany characters and outrageous fantasy scenes.
Cons: Sometimes Rob is shallow, selfish and petty.

Directed by Stephen Frears This is a comedy about Rob Gordon (John Cusack) who is in his thirties and is still afraid to fully commit to a serious relationship. His girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), leaves him because he cannot grow. He has become ...

Pros: John Cusack at his very best
Cons: Not for rock music cynics

Throughout his film career, John Cusack has been eminently watchable, even when the movie doesn't match his talent. In "High Fidelity," his latest starring role, that is no problem. In it, he plays Rob Gordon, a record store owner who has a Top...

Pros: A clever and jaded look at romance from a man's perspective; great soundtrack
Cons: May make you want to kick the protagonist in the nads

John Cusack plays Rob Gordon, a thirty-ish angst-filled owner of a used record store in Chicago. As in many of his other films, Mr. Cusack has rumpled hair, his mouth is slightly open at all times, and he looks, well, vaguely unhealthy. Rob seems to...

Pros: Great cast, great music
Cons: None

High Fidelity is one of the most well-written films that I've seen in a while. All the characters are very well developed and well created. John Cusack gives an excellent performance as a regular, down-to-earth guy who almost every guy on the planet...

Pros: Cusack is well, Cusack. Jack Black is great.
Cons: A bit too heavy at times.

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I enjoyed this movie, it was like a better version of Empire Records woven with a Cameron Crowe formula type deal. Now Cameron Crowe didn't direct this movie, but it sure seems like he did. It's an interesting take on...

Pros: Likeable cast
Cons: Unlikeable character

"What came first? Music or the misery? Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable, or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" Rob (John Cusack) asks the camera in the opening words of High Fidelity.

The...

Pros: Surprising honesty, Cusack's the man, and some real laughs.
Cons: It bombed at the box office. I was mad.

Dealing with a romantic breakup is easily one of the most painful experiences in the world. The fact that it happens over and over in life makes it one of humanity's cruelest jokes. Fortunately, the human soul is quite resilient, and High Fidelity shows...

Pros: a great deal of acting potential
Cons: potential was squandered on bad script, boring dialogue, and annoying, whiny, pretentious characters

I know that I am in the extreme minority here, but I did not like "High Fidelity". I find it highly disappointing that director Stephen Frears took such a giant step down from his past work, which includes masterpieces like "Dangerous...

Pros: Endearing performance by Cusack, Hilarious script that is helped along by a stellar cast, Convincing romantic sub-plot,
Cons: It dragged a bit in certain places...

When I was a child I used to thumb through my parent's vinyl collection and make mix tapes of seemingly endless song combinations. I didn't just make any tapes; I planned the play lists, I included songs back to back that had certain importance,...

Pros: The whole movie
Cons: If your relationship is thick-skinned, then you can get through it

I really think if there's one kind of movie where men may not want their girlfriends to see, then don't look any further than High Fidelity. Arguably a star making role for John Cusack, whom as we all know has been breaking the hearts of many teenage ...

Pros: The jokes are hilarious and the thoughtful stuff is very insightful
Cons: Lags in comedy for a while

This is the story of an unambitious music lover who is constantly reflecting and wondering how past screw-ups could have been prevented. Jeez, it’s eerie how autobiographical that sounds. But this isn’t my story – it’s the life of the main character in...

Pros: I know guys like this.
Cons: I know guys like this.

I freely admit to knowing absolutely nothing about men. They baffle me as much now as when I was a teenager. I have successfully avoided lumping men into one category or another, as I never found it particularly helpful when my friends would go off on...

Pros: Many humorous scenes, screenwriting, Fine acting by Cussack, great performances by the supporting cast, intelligent fare about relationships
Cons: Not for action seekers of mindless fare (if this insults you, the film isn't for you;-), not highly intellectual (if you prefer that type of thing)

Now that the Oscars have been awarded and it's a full two months before the teeny-bopper summer releases deluge the neighborhood multiplexes, movie aficionados can expect more intelligent fare to grace the screens. High Fidelity fits in...

Pros: John Cusack turns in a tour de force performance
Cons: Hard to think of any

In High Fidelity, John Cusack stars as Rob Gordon, the owner of Championship Vinyl, a ramshackle record store in a seedy part of Chicago. Rob, in addition to having an encyclopedic knowledge of music and possibly the world's largest LP collection, also...