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  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Grosse Pointe Blank review by Steve Owen 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 Coney#1 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 Robert Askew 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


  • War Inc. (2008)
    Starring: Marisa Tomei,  Hilary Duff,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Joshua Seftel
    Certificate: TBC
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (51%)
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  • Martian Child on DVD (2007)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Joan Cusack,  Amanda Peet
    Director: Menno Meyjes
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (66%)
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  • Grace Is Gone (2007)
    Starring: Nathan Adloff,  Heather O. Craig,  John Cusack
    Director: James C. Strauss
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (55%)
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  • The Contract on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jamie Anderson,  Ned Bellamy,  Margarita Blush
    Director: Bruce Beresford
    Certificate: 15
    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: 3.0 (59%)
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  • Must Love Dogs on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Diane Lane,  John Cusack,  Elizabeth Perkins
    Director: Gary David Goldberg
    Certificate: 12
    John Cusack and Diane Lane star in this romantic comedy titled after a personal ad on the Internet. Eight months after getting divorced, downtrodden preschool teacher Sarah (Lane) is wary of re-entering the dating pool. Seeing her reluctance as a cry for help, Sarah's large, jovial family plans an ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (56%)
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  • The Ice Harvest on DVD (2005)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Connie Nielsen
    Director: Harlod Ramis
    Certificate: 15
    In icebound Wichita, Kansas, it's Christmas Eve, and this year Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) just might have something to celebrate. Charlie, an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, and his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton) have just successfully embezzled $...
    Rate this: 3.0 (57%)
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  • Identity on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Ray Liotta,  Amanda Peet
    Director: James Mangold
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (67%)
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  • Runaway Jury on DVD (2003)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Gene Hackman,  Dustin Hoffman
    Director: Gary Fleder
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (70%)
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  • Adaptation on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Meryl Streep,  Chris Cooper
    Director: Spike Jonze
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (69%)
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  • Max on DVD (2002)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Noah Taylor,  Molly Parker
    Director: Menno Meyjes
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (61%)
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  • Serendipity on DVD (2001)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Kate Beckinsale,  Molly Shannon
    Director: Peter Chelsom
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (68%)
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  • America's Sweethearts on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Julia Roberts,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Joe Roth
    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 ...
    Rate this: 2.5 (55%)
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  • High Fidelity on DVD (2000)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Jack Black,  Lisa Bonet
    Director: Stephen Frears
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (73%)
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  • Pushing Tin on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Billy Bob Thornton,  Cate Blanchett
    Director: Mike Newell
    Certificate: 15
    Nick Falzone (John Cusack) is a confident, accomplished air traffic controller whose life is turned upside down when drifter Russell Bell (Billy Bob Thornton) joins his tight-knit work team and threatens to drive him insane. Stakes are high and pressure is constant in the world of air traffic ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (62%)
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  • The Jack Bull on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Cusack,  John Goodman,  L.Q. Jones
    Director: John Badham
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (67%)
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  • Being John Malkovich on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Cameron Diaz,  Catherine Keener
    Director: Spike Jonze
    Certificate: 15
    Original is far too understated a term to describe this picture, brought to you by the surreal, twisted minds of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and actor-director Spike Jonze. The story concerns a puppeteer, Craig Schwartz (John Cusack), who discovers his office has a secret portal that leads ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (73%)
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  • This Is My Father on DVD (1998)
    Starring: John Cusack,  James Caan,  Aidan Quinn
    Director: Paul Quinn
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (57%)
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  • Chicago Cab (1998)
    Starring: Paul Dillon,  John Cusack,  Tim Gamble
    Director: Mary Cybulski
    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 (48%)
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  • The Thin Red Line on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Sean Penn,  Adrien Brody,  Jim Caviezel
    Director: Terrence Malick
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (67%)
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  • Anastasia on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  John Cusack,  Kelsey Grammer
    Director: Gary Goldman,  Don Bluth
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.0 (68%)
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  • Con Air on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  John Cusack,  John Malkovich
    Director: Simon West
    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 ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (72%)
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  • Grosse Pointe Blank on DVD (1997)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Minnie Driver,  Dan Aykroyd
    Director: George Armitage
    Certificate: 15
    A nihilistically philosophical hit man (John Cusack) reluctantly accepts an assignment in Detroit, coinciding with his 10-year high school reunion in the ritzy suburb of Grosse Point, Michigan. While in town, he tries to patch things up with the girlfriend (Minnie Driver) he abandoned on prom night,...
    Rate this: 3.5 (76%)
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  • City Hall on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Al Pacino,  John Cusack,  Bridget Fonda
    Director: Harold Becker
    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: 3.0 (60%)
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  • Bullets Over Broadway on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Dianne Wiest,  Jennifer Tilly
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: 15
    David Shayne (John Cusack, in performance his character that of a young Woody Allen) is an idealistic young playwright whose life (and play) is about to be turned upside down as it heads toward Broadway. In order to gain financing for GOD OF OUR FATHERS, Shayne agrees to hire Olive Neal (a ...
    Rate this: 3.5 (70%)
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