Grosse Pointe Blank
with John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd
Directed by George Armitage
Written by Tom Jankiewicz
by Scott Hefflon
Martin Q. Blank (Cusack) goes to his 10 year high school reunion having not been back since he graduated. Now he’s a professional killer. Life takes some funny turns, huh? While Martin has no qualms terminating his targets, he’s scared stiff at the thought of seeing his high school sweetie (Driver) who he stood up at the prom and hasn’t contacted since. Martin submits to the pressure of his office manager (his real-life sister, Joan Cusack) who’s fascinated by the notion that he “actually came from somewhere.” But he doesn’t submit to the pressure of joining the hitman’s union, the brainchild of self-nominated father figure/antagonist Grocer (Aykroyd). So Grocer hires a hit on Blank, turns him in to a government agency (“Let me get this straight: If we kill the bad guy, we’re bad guys. If we wait until the bad guy kills the good guy, then we kill the bad guy, we’re the good guys?” It’s almost as good as that “I don’t want to make anything processed/process anything sold/sell anything processed” argument in Say Anything.), then chases him to Grosse Pointe to steal his hit.