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  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Grosse Pointe Blank review by from London
    Rated - 5 stars If I was a girl I'd marry John Cusack (if he'd have me) 14 October 2003
    ...John Cusack is the epitome of cool; Minnie Driver, Joan Cusack, Alan Arkin and Dan Akroyd have NEVER been better. If you like your movies twisted and unusual - you know, a...  
  • Being John Malkovich
  • Being John Malkovich review by from BRISTOL
    Rated - 4 stars 13 May 2004
    ...is is a film which is neither hilarious nor action-packed but still entertains. John Cusack plays his usual amiable loser while Cameron Diaz is almost unrecognisable and t...  
  • High Fidelity
  • High Fidelity review by from Stevenage, England
    Rated - 5 stars Great Book, Great Music, Great Film 10 December 2004
    ...ed this for the first time yesterday, and I must say I was not dissapointed. John Cusack give a great performace while we explore the inner workings of a blokes mind wh...  

John Cusack - filmography


  • Igor on DVD (2008)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Steve Buscemi,  John Cleese
    Director: Anthony Leondis
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In a land of mad scientists and diabolical inventions, what do you do when you¹re born with a hunch on your back? You become an Igor. A twist on the classic monster movie, that tells the story of one Igor--who's sick of being a lowly lab assistant with a "Yes Master's" degree--and dreams of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 8,702 members
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  • War Inc. on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Marisa Tomei,  Hilary Duff,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Joshua Seftel
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Joshua Seftel's fierce political satire features an all-star cast headed by John Cusack. Set in a fictionalized Middle East, the film takes United States foreign affairs to comic extremes in a world where corporations rule and wars are completely outsourced. At the start of the film, Turaqistan is ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 2,291 members
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  • Martian Child on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Joan Cusack,  Amanda Peet
    Director: Menno Meyjes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on an award-winning short story by sci-fi luminary David Gerrold, Martian Child sees John Cusack as a recently widowed science fiction writer who forms an unlikely family with a close friend (Amanda Peet) and a young boy he adopts who claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignore some sage ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,493 members
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  • Grace Is Gone (2007)
    Starring: Nathan Adloff,  Heather O. Craig,  John Cusack
    Director: James C. Strauss
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    There was a time when Stanley Phillips dreamed of patriotic service and was destined for a military career. But, that dream was cut short because of his poor eyesight. Now, he's serving customers at a home supply store while his sergeant wife is fighting in Iraq. Equally as awkward at home as he is ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 61% from 14 members
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  • The Contract on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jamie Anderson,  Ned Bellamy,  Margarita Blush
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Ray Keene (Cusack), a father who wants to redeem himself in the eyes of his son, is trying to bring Cordell (Freeman), a world-class assassin to justice. All the while, he must protect his son and evade an assassin's team who are methodically hunting them down in the wilderness.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 17,993 members
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  • Contract, The - BLU-RAY Version (2006)
    Starring: Jamie Anderson,  Thomas Lockyer,  Megan Dodds
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Only one man stands between a deadly assassin and a mark, a father protecting his child. Ray Keene (John Cusak) and his son embark upon a hiking holiday in order to reconnect after the death of his ex-wife. However, the pair are soon embroiled in a plot involving mercenaries, in this edge-of-the-..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 156 members
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  • Identity on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Ray Liotta,  Amanda Peet
    Director: James Mangold
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    IDENTITY, directed by James Mangold, is a thriller set at an isolated motel in rural Nevada during an unrelenting rainstorm. With all roads washed out and all forms of communication dead, a group of people become stranded at the motel along with the shifty manager (John Hawkes). Among the stranded ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 29,807 members
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  • Runaway Jury on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Gene Hackman,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Gary Fleder
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director Gary Fleder (THINGS TO DO IN DENVER WHEN YOU'RE DEAD, KISS THE GIRLS) tackles best-selling novelist John Grisham's tale of jury manipulation in RUNAWAY JURY. Jury consultant Rankin Fitch (Gene Hackman) can spin any jury in favour of his client. At least he always could before. But his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 38,762 members
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  • Max on DVD (2002)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Noah Taylor,  Molly Parker
    Director: Menno Meyjes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    MAX, directed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Menno Meyjes, stars John Cusack as the title character, Max Rothman, a German-Jewish man who lost his right arm while fighting for his country during World War One. Although Rothman is no longer able to pursue his dream of becoming an artist, he ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 2,512 members
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  • Adaptation on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Meryl Streep,  Chris Cooper
    Director: Spike Jonze
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Following up their acclaimed debut, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and director Spike Jonze are back to metaphysical moviemaking with ADAPTATION. The film stars Nicolas Cage as both Charlie Kaufman and his fictionalised identical twin brother Donald. While the boisterous Donald ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 26,242 members
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  • Serendipity on DVD (2001)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Kate Beckinsale,  Molly Shannon
    Director: Peter Chelsom
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    New York City, just before Christmas. The last pair of black cashmere gloves in Bloomingdale's is on its way to the counter. As the gloves arrive, Sara (Kate Beckinsale) and Jonathan (John Cusack) claim them simultaneously. And so it begins--Sara and Jonathan go to a little coffee shop, named ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 12,702 members
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  • America's Sweethearts on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Joe Roth
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (John Cusack) are AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, two wildly popular celebrities who share their love on and off the screen in this farcical romantic comedy. But a messy breakup sends Eddie to a New Age Hollywood healing center and Gwen into the arms of her current ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 11,814 members
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  • High Fidelity on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Jack Black,  Lisa Bonet
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Transplanted from England to the not-so-mean streets of Chicago, the screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's cult-classic novel High Fidelity emerges unscathed from its Americanisation, idiosyncrasies intact, thanks to John Cusack's inimitable charm and a nimble, nifty screenplay (co-written by Cusack). ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 17,698 members
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  • The Jack Bull on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Cusack,  John Goodman,  L.Q. Jones
    Director: John Badham
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    At a time in the West when colonies dreamt of statehood and men forged their own laws with power and pride, a honest rancher is forced to face the injustices of a power-hungry neighbor. John Cusack stars as Myrl Redding, a just and forthright horse trader who becomes the brutal victim of his ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 555 members
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  • This Is My Father on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Cusack,  James Caan,  Aidan Quinn
    Director: Paul Quinn
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Caan portrays a disillusioned Chicago high-school teacher who decides to make a pilgrimage to Ireland to learn the truth about his father, whom he never met. He takes along his troubled nephew, who spends his days falling in love with a local school girl. The film shifts between the present and the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 279 members
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  • The Thin Red Line on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  Jim Caviezel
    Director: Terrence Malick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Terrence Malick returns to Hollywood after a two-decade hiatus with this adaptation of the classic WWII novel by James Jones. The story follows the efforts of an army platoon to capture the Japanese-controlled island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific Ocean, which will have a major effect on the outcome ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 11,218 members
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  • Chicago Cab (1998)
    Starring: Paul Dillon,  John Cusack,  Tim Gamble
    Director: Mary Cybulski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This episodic adaptation of Will Kern's seriocomic play follows a Chicago cabbie (Paul Dillon) as he picks up various passengers on the city's South Side on Christmas Eve and the various stories they each have to tell.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 21 members
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  • Con Air on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Nothing makes good-guy non-recidivist offender Cameron Poe happier than the thought of returning to society, where his angelic wife and the equally angelic little girl he's never known are waiting. And nothing makes him angrier than the passel of psychopathic murderers and rapists aboard his prison ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 28,046 members
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  • Anastasia on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  John Cusack,  Kelsey Grammer
    Director: Gary Goldman,  Don Bluth
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Based on the legend of the real-life daugher of the last Russian czar, ANASTASIA combines imaginative animation and lively songs to tell the story of a princess who escapes a horrible execution and mysteriously reappears after being thought dead. When a team of swindlers, Dimitri (John Cusack) and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,538 members
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  • City Hall on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  John Cusack,  Bridget Fonda
    Director: Harold Becker
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In this urban thriller the accidental shooting of a six-year-old during an altercation between cops and a drug dealer shakes a New York City mayor's office to its core, as the resulting investigation unveils the seamy truths behind political power-brokering and backroom deals.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,630 member
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  • Shadows And Fog on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Woody Allen,  Kathy Bates,  John Cusack
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A killer lurks in the dark corners of an odd little European town--a mysterious stranger who brutally strangles his victims. When the circus comes to visit, the madman steps up his pace, commencing a ghastly murder spree. Meanwhile, a nondescript local man named Kleinman finds himself accused of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,697 member
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  • True Colors on DVD (1991)
    Starring: James Spader,  John Cusack,  Richard Widmark
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tim and Peter are law students. Tim is concerned with social issues whilst Peter is full of self-interest. Their friendship is severed by betrayal.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 451 members
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  • Tapeheads on DVD (1989)
    Starring: 'Weird Al' Yankovic,  Tim Robbins,  John Cusack
    Director: Bill Fishman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    John Cusack and Tim Robbins star in this comedy as Ivan and Josh, a pair of dim witted security guards who love music videos and lose their jobs after throwing a party while they're supposed to be working. Having no immediate job prospects, the two decide to form their own music video production ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 409 members
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  • Shadowmakers on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Dwight Schultz,  Bonnie Bedelia
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director Roland Joffe's SHADOW MAKERS is a historical drama about the lives of the participants in the Manhattan Project--the making and perfecting of the atomic bomb that took place in New Mexico during World War II. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie Groves, a hardened and cynical soldier who ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 59% from 324 members
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  • Say Anything on DVD (1989)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Joan Cusack,  Ione Skye
    Director: Cameron Crowe
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In Cameron Crowe's directorial debut, John Cusack plays Lloyd Dobler--an average guy with a penchant for kickboxing. There is only one thing that all-around nice guy Lloyd wants for his high school graduation--a date with beautiful valedictorian Diane Court (Ione Skye). Lloyd's dream comes true ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,438 members
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  • Stand By Me on DVD (1986)
    Starring: River Phoenix,  Corey Feldman,  Wil Wheaton
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Based on Stephen King's novella THE BODY, director Rob Reiner's STAND BY ME is the disarmingly tender and subtly sublime story of four kids on the precipice of early adulthood who embark upon a quest. There's Gordie (Wil Wheaton), the intelligent, creative one with the obviously bright future. His ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 28,240 members
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  • The Sure Thing on DVD (1985)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Daphne Zuniga,  Nicolette Sheridan
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    When free-spirited but juvenile Walter 'Gib' Gibson (John Cusack) meets studious, uptight Alison Bradbury (Daphne Zuniga) at an unnamed Ivy League college, sparks fly; unfortunately, they are mostly of the disastrous variety as all of Gib's attempts at courtship fall painfully apart. Inevitably, ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,595 members
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  • Breakfast with Hunter
    Starring: John Cusack,  Benicio Del Toro,  Johnny Depp
    Director: Wayne Ewing
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Breakfast with Hunter is a feature length documentary starring the infamous outlaw journalist Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. The film chronicles Dr. Thompson's successful attempt to avoid being placed in the system - jail and/or rehabilitation - by rogue Aspen City cops that conspired to bust him for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 67% from 21 members
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  • The Factory
    Starring: Dallas Roberts,  John Cusack,  Mae Whitman
    Director: Morgan O'Neill
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An obsessed cop is, with his partner, on the trail of a serial killer prowling the streets of Buffalo, N.Y. but when his teenage daughter disappears, he drops any professional restraint to get the killer.
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 30% from 1 member
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John Cusack - watch online


  • The Contract to Watch Now (2006)
    Starring: Jamie Anderson,  Ned Bellamy,  Margarita Blush
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 97 minutes
    The only thing standing between an assassin and his target is a father who must protect his son. While on a hiking trip to reconnect with his son, Ray Keene finds himself caught up in a nightmare scenario of paid assassins and ex-military guns for hire, lead by the mysterious and dangerous Frank ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3 members
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  • True Colors to Watch Now (1991)
    Starring: John Cusack,  James Spader,  Imogen Stubbs
    Director: Herbert Ross
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
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    Run time: 110 minutes
    They're the best of friends. Soon, they'll be the worst of enemies. John Cusack (America's Sweethearts, Say Anything) and James Spader (sex, lies and videotape, Pretty In Pink) star in this dramatic, absorbing story of two friends who move from law school to Washington's corridors of power. Cusack ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 13 members
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  • Tapeheads to Watch Now (1989)
    Starring: 'Weird Al' Yankovic,  Tim Robbins,  John Cusack
    Director: Bill Fishman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    Run time: 89 minutes
    Tim Robbins and John Cusack star as two fun-loving childhood pals who decide to quit their dead-end jobs and become music video makers. The ambitious duo encounter every breed of personality as they make their way us the precarious ladder of fame. Their spirited friendship and hungry dreams keep ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1 member
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John Cusack facts

5 most recent films

Hot Tub Time Machine - 3 stars
2012 - 3.5 stars
2012 - 3 stars
Igor - 3.0 stars
War Inc. - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Con Air - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Stand By Me - 4.0 stars
Grosse Pointe Blank - 3.5 stars
2012 - 3.5 stars
Con Air - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

2012 - 3 stars
Hot Tub Time Machine - 3 stars
The Factory - 1.5 stars
Shanghai - 2.5 stars
Chicago Cab - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Joan Cusack - 7 times - show films
Amanda Peet - 5 times - show films
Oliver Platt - 4 times - show films
Steve Buscemi - 4 times - show films
Hank Azaria - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Stephen Frears - 3 times - show films
Bruce Beresford - 3 times - show films
Spike Jonze - 2 times - show films
Simon West - 2 times - show films
Menno Meyjes - 2 times - show films