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High Fidelity
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".
2000 · Directed by Stephen Frears · 113 min · Drama · Comedy · Romance · Music · Screenplay in the scene database · 17 frames
Tagline
A comedy about fear of commitment, hating your job, falling in love and other pop favorites.
Plot
Rob Gordon is a music enthusiast who is despondent after being abruptly dumped by Laura, his live-in girlfriend of two years.
By day, Rob manages Championship Vinyl, a record store in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, where he and his employees, Dick and Barry, indulge in their encyclopedic musical knowledge. They compile "Top 5" lists for every imaginable occasion, mock their few customers' tastes, and occasionally sell records. Rob compiles a list of his top 5 most memorable breakups, not including his breakup with Laura.
After Laura's friend Liz confronts Rob about their breakup, Rob describes how he once borrowed a large sum of money from Laura and also cheated on her, not knowing that Laura was pregnant, prompting her to secretly abort the baby while they reconciled. After Rob's mother calls him out on his doomed relationships, he decides on a journey to understand his relationship failures by reconnecting with his former partners on the Top 5 list.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Steve Pink, D.V. DeVincentis, Scott Rosenberg, John Cusack
- Cinematography: Seamus McGarvey
- Edited by: Mick Audsley
- Music: Howard Shore
- Production design: David Chapman, Thérèse DePrez
- Produced by: Tim Bevan, Rudd Simmons
Cast
- John Cusack as Rob
- Iben Hjejle as Laura
- Todd Louiso as Dick
- Jack Black as Barry
- Lisa Bonet as Marie De Salle
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Charlie
- Joan Cusack as Liz
- Tim Robbins as Ian
- Chris Rehmann as Vince
- Ben Carr as Justin
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
- Language: Danish, English
- Studios: Touchstone Pictures, Working Title, Dogstar Films, New Crime Productions
- Budget: $30,000,000
- Box office: $47,100,000
- Themes: chicago, illinois, rock 'n' roll, music record, disc jockey, pop, ex-girlfriend, music journalist, relationship problems, record label, flashback
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