Grosse Pointe Blank: Music From The Film
1997
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I adore absolutely everything about the film Grosse Pointe Blank. Part of it is a timing thing — it came out just a couple of months after I moved to NYC and served as a security blanket when I didn’t have a ton of friends to hang with. I probably watched it 5 or 6 times that spring. It also has a cast that are really at their best, including a great turn by Dan Akroyd as an insane hitman. And the plot is killer — who doesn’t want to return to their high school reunion with the coolest job ever — assassin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy9MlIBv6xo
If you haven’t seen it, watch the damn thing. But even if the movie is not your cup of tea, the soundtrack will be. It’s full of 80s-era “alternative” hits as spun in-movie by Minnie Driver’s radio DJ.
