HIGH FIDELITY
2000

July 22, 2001
DVD

A comedy about fear of commitment, hating your job, falling in love, and other pop favorites.

-->Directed.....Stephen Frears [My Beautiful Laundrette, Prick Up Your Ears, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, Dangerous Liaisons, The Grifters, Hero, Mary Reilly, Fail Safe]
-->Written.....Nick Hornby [About A Boy] and D.V. DeVincentis [Grosse Point Blank, Blade] and Steve Pink [Murder One, The Sure Thing, Bob Roberts, Grosse Point Blank] and John Cusack and Scott Rosenberg [Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Beautiful Girls, Con Air, There's Something About Mary, The General's Daughter, Gone In Sixty Seconds]
-->Rob Gordon.....John Cusack [Class, Sixteen Candles, The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, Stand By Me, One Crazy Summer, Broadcast News, Tapeheads, Eight Men Out, Say Anything, Fat Man And Little Boy, The Grifters, True Colors, Shadows And Fog, The Player, Map Of The Human Heart, Bob Roberts, Money For Nothing, Bullets Over Broadway, Baseball, City Hall, Grosse Point Blank, Con Air, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, The Thin Red Line, Being John Malkovich]
-->Laura.....Iben Hjejle
-->Dick.....Todd Louiso [Billy Bathgate, Scent Of A Woman, Apollo 13, Jerry Maguire, The Rock]
-->Barry.....Jack Black [MichaelVox's Five Funniest Humans, Mr. Show, One-Half of Tenacious D, Northern Exposure, The X-Files, Bob Roberts, Demolition Man, Bye Bye Love, Waterworld, Dead Man Walking, The Cable Guy, The Fan, Enemy Of The State]
-->Marie DeSalle.....Lisa Bonet [The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Enemy Of The State]
-->Charlie Nicholson.....Catherine Zeta-Jones [The Mask Of Zorro, Entrapment, Traffic]
-->Liz.....Joan Cusack [My Bodyguard, Class, Sixteen Candles, Broadcast News, Married To The Mob, Working Girl, Say Anything, Men Don't Leave, Hero, Corrina, Corrina, Nine Months, Grosse Point Blank, In & Out, Runaway Bride, Toy Story 2, Where The Heart Is]
-->Ian Raymond.....Tim Robbins [Network, The Sure Thing, Fraternity Vacation, Top Gun, Bull Durham, Tapeheads, Miss Firecracker, Jacob's Ladder, Cadillac Man, Jungle Fever, The Player, Bob Roberts, Short Cuts, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Shawshank Redemption, Pret-A-Porter, I.Q., Dead Man Walking]
-->Sarah.....Lili Taylor [She's Having A Baby, Mystic Pizza, Born On The Fourth Of July, Say Anything, Dogfight, Rudy, Short Cuts, Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle, Pret-A-Porter, Girls Town, Ransom, Subway Stories: Tales From The Underground]
-->Caroline.....Natasha Gregson Wagner [Daughter of Natalie Wood, Buffy The Vampire Slayer]

With a cast this talented, it has to be good, right? My second viewing was just as special as my first. I watched this time with people that didn't have the same love of music that I do, and I don't think they enjoyed it as much. Cusack is perfect in his role and everytime Jack Black is onscreen, you don't want to miss a word.

DVD had deleted scenes including one from the book that should have been included when Rob goes to buy a record collection from a scorned wife. Information on the book HIGH FIDELITY can be found here.