Based
on Nick Hornby's book of the same name, this features Rob, owner of a
small vinyl record store which caters to obscure and hard-to-get
vinyl lovers. Rob seems to have hit an impasse in his mid-30s in the
relationship department, and has gone through a series of
relationships where he doesn't seem to have learned anything at all
about the opposite sex. Now his current girlfriend is leaving him,
making him recall all his past screw-ups, and he realizes that this
one is too important to just let go.
John Cusack
has a knack for picking freshly written and insightful comedies that,
while not always successful critically and/or commercially, are
definitely unlike most comedies out there. HIGH FIDELITY in another
in Cusack's niche of smartly written endeavors and may be his best
since SAY ANYTHING. Director Stephen Frears, who directed Cusack ten
years before in his equally intruguing drama THE GRIFTERS, shows
class and savvy in delivering the excellent script (co-written by
Cusack) without adding needless crude bits to spruce up the laughs.
Probably will be the most underrated comedy of 2000, and definitely
one worth seeking out for those who like "comedies of truth" without
all the gross-out vulgarities like the rest of the so-called funny
movies out there.
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