
Thirty-something Rob Gordon, a former club DJ, owns a not-so-lucrative used record store in Chicago. He not so much employs Barry and Dick, but rather keeps them around as they showed up at the store one day and never left. All three are vinyl and music snobs, but in different ways. Rob has a penchant for compiling top-five lists. The latest of these lists is his top-five break-ups, it spurred by the fact that his latest girlfriend, Laura, a lawyer, has just broken up with hi... (Full plot summary below)
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Thirty-something Rob Gordon, a former club DJ, owns a not-so-lucrative used record store in Chicago. He not so much employs Barry and Dick, but rather keeps them around as they showed up at the store one day and never left. All three are vinyl and music snobs, but in different ways. Rob has a penchant for compiling top-five lists. The latest of these lists is his top-five break-ups, it spurred by the fact that his latest girlfriend, Laura, a lawyer, has just broken up with him. He believed that Laura would be the one who would last, partly as an expectation of where he would be at this stage in his life. Rob admits that there have been a few incidents in their relationship which in and of themselves could be grounds for her to want to break up. To his satisfaction, Laura is not on this top-five list. Rob feels a need not only to review the five relationships, which go back as far as middle school when he was 12, and try to come to terms with why the woman, or girl as the case may be, left him, but also, in the words of Charlie Nicholson, number four on the list, "what it all means" for why he has ended up where he is, which is nowhere, personally or professionally, close to what he envisioned. He also has to come to terms with what it means that Laura has moved on to Ian Raymond, a man for whom neither had any respect when they were together.
Leave your thoughts about High Fidelity.
| ViewLondonRichard CottonDeftly directed by Stephen Frears the film boasts both a great soundtrack and a wonderful cast. Definitely one of the best comedies of the year! |
| Sacramento BeeJoe BaltakeThis talky, entertaining film is like a good bull session with a friend who won't shut up. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCauses us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonTrenchantly witty and acutely insightful. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonA guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love |
| GuardianPeter BradshawIt is still a bit wimpy and sugary, but it's definitely entertaining, and the translation to American accelerates the tempo refreshingly. |
| Three Movie BuffsScott NashEasily makes it onto my top 5 John Cusack movies list. |
| The Film YapNick RogersIn his best Zeroes performance, John Cusack traced Rob's realizations and reconciliations with resonant thoughtfulness and wit - the worst-case scenario of Lloyd Dobler after Diane Court was done with him, resigned to life as an old, sad bastard. |
| Sacramento News & ReviewBob GrimmI can't see how anyone would not like this film. |
| Gay Chicago MagazineJonathan LewisA smart, adult comedy about the trials and tribulations of failed relationships. |