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High Fidelity
Buena Vista Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some sexuality
Starring
John Cusack,
Iben Hjejle,
Todd Louiso,
Jack Black,
Lisa Bonet,
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Lili Taylor,
and
Joan Cusack
In this biting romantic comedy, Rob Gordon (Cusack) is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago, where he sells music the old-fashioned way -- on vinyl. His needle, however, skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend, Laura (Hjejle), walks out on him. As he examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness, the process finds him being dragged, kicking and screaming, into adulthood. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Nick Hornby (book)
D.V. DeVincentis
Steve Pink
John Cusack
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Stephen Frears
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 19, 2000
Video: September 19, 2000
Theatrical: March 31, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
113 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / UK |

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100
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy.

100
Variety
Joe Leydon
Trenchantly witty and acutely insightful.

100
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love

100
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, is like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes.
100
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's so spry and lively and warm that you want to dance to it.
90
Film.com
Tom Keogh
The extent to which Black and Louiso help make this film terribly witty and caustic and worth every minute of its almost two-hour running time is immeasurable.

90
The New York Times
Stephen Holden
Witty, exquisitely fine-tuned screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel

90
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A sharp and satisfying romantic comedy.

90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Every single actor here rises to the occasion.

90
Film.com
John Hartl
Hilarious and high-spirited.

90
Dallas Observer
Zac Crane
The film is so much like the book, it might as well come with a bookmark to hold your place when you step outside to use the restroom.

88
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Sad, funny, brilliant.
88
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The quirky High Fidelity really deserves being called the first must-see movie of the century.
88
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
Terrific.

88
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
The movie is, to borrow Rob's phrase, unassailably cool.
88
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
When director Stephen Frears worked with (Jack Black), he must have yelled "Let 'er rip!" instead of "Action!"

88
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Like laughing into a mirror for 113 minutes.

88
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
(Cusack) has never been more effective onscreen.

80
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
All the pieces hang together. You can't say that about many movies.
80
Newsweek
David Ansen
Cusack is a master at playing smart, frazzled, self-flagellating hipsters, and the movie, propelled by his arias of angst, lets him strut his best stuff.
80
Film.com
Elizabeth Weitzman
(Cusack)'s genius, however, is in his continual ability to be the most likeable of everymen.

80
TNT RoughCut
Tom Cappello
High Fidelitys hip structure and offbeat characters provide consistent laughs and a good time.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A smart, funny, and youth-savvy relationship film.

75
Chicago Tribune
Marc Caro
Easily cracks the top five list of reasons to go to the movies these days - and defies categories in doing so.
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's aimed squarely at a young dating audience, and is not likely to be hugely captivating for anyone out of that demographic.

74
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Even if it sometimes skips, it's consistently wittier and more idiosyncratic that most studio movies.
70
TV Guide
Steve Simels
One of the sharpest and emotionally resonant romantic comedies in what seems like years.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
The humor about male neurosis doesn't try to remind you of Woody Allen at every turn.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
For all its music-trivia affection, High Fidelity is finally a pretty thin melody.

63
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Ultimately too slight for its own good: It's a genial little doodle, light on plot and heavy on quotable, pithy observations.
63
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Isn't all that romantic and is only half as funny as it thinks it is.
60
Slate
David Edelstein
It's almost criminal the way the central relationship of High Fidelity has been left such a void.

60
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
High Fidelity wants to be hip, but it's comically square.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The meandering story and channel-surfing style prevent it from gathering the emotional momentum it would need to get below the hero's skin and let us know what really makes him tick.

40
Village Voice
Amy Taubin
It may seem perverse to fault a movie for being too accurate, but when surface accuracy is coupled with tunnel vision about self and society the result is a wee bit irritating.


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