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High Fidelity
from Touchstone / Disney
starring John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Todd Louiso
directed by Stephen Frears

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• I'll take the soundtrack instead
  Rob Gordon (John Cusack) didn't exactly become what he wanted. He owns a vintage vinyl record shop and works it with a pair of oddball salespeople who are possibly more disenfranchised than he. His top career choice would have been writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, but there were four others as well.
  Now, his girlfriend Laura (Iben Hjejle) is moving out of their apartment. She was five on his Top Five list of most devastating breakups. Rob believes girls 1-4 somehow set him up for failure for this... more info

• He's grumpy, he's broke, he hangs out with the musical moron twins...
  
  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,... more info

• TOP TWO MISTAKES IN HIGH FIDELITY
  "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... more info

• horrid
  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?
  

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