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Grosse Pointe Blank

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Grosse Pointe Blank	comment	Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 romantic comedy action film about an assassin going home to attend his 10-year high school reunion. Hilarity ensues. The film stars John Cusack (who also receives a writing credit), Dan Aykroyd, Minnie Driver and Joan Cusack.Martin Blank is a government-trained freelance hitman living under a decade-long existential crisis. When his latest job takes him to his old home town of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, on the very weekend of his high school reunion, his worlds collide and he's forced to confront some dangling threads of his past life. Complicating matters is the unwanted attention he's receiving from his professional rival Grocer, who's given him an offer Blank can't refuse to join his new Weird Trade Union of assassins. Blank has to dodge hitmen, elude the NSA, find his target, and (most alarmingly) reconnect with the girl he abandoned on graduation day.Final film for Barbara Harris, who appeared as Martin's mentally ill mom.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_10a262e4	type	Headphones Equal Isolation
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_10a262e4	comment	Headphones Equal Isolation: A guy in a convenience store playing Doom and listening to Motorhead is oblivious to a gunfight right behind him.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: D.V. DeVincentis and Steve Pink, two of the co-writers of the movie, each play former classmates of Martin and Debi's.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: It's never stated outright, but basically, Martin's employer for his hits during the film is an automobile company that wants to prevent its execs from testifying against it. That there are several auto companies in Michigan makes this plot sufficiently ambiguous that it doesn't slander any one company.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer reveals that Martin's target is his girlfriend's father. It seems pretty clear that this was intended to be a big reveal in the third act.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Martin's chipper secretary Marcella (played by Joan Cusack) discusses recipes on one line while hardballing arms dealers on the other.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Martin receives an offer to target a Greenpeace boat, that happens to be worded in French.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1d18887f	type	Pay Evil unto Evil
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1d18887f	comment	"If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there."
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: An old schoolfriend of Martin's at the reunion, after helping him dispose of a body. His outrage only increases when Martin only orders a club soda.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1fd2efc9	type	Byronic Hero
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_1fd2efc9	comment	Byronic Hero: Martin. Guy's got a list of neuroses a mile wide and tries to be a good person... except that he's a killing machine and the only way he knows how to make a living is by using said skills.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: Well, the main character is a hitman, and it's about him going home for his 10-year high school reunion. It kind of screams Juxtaposition Gag.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: After emptying two revolvers into his target in the opening scene, Grocer drops them on the man's corpse and walks away. In the final confrontation, Grocer is carrying six to eight of the same subcompact pistol, emptying them in pairs, then tossing them away and drawing fresh ones.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Martin is given a pen by a former classmate, which he soon uses to kill an assassin who attacks him. He doesn't open the dossier on his target for some time, and it turns out to be his girlfriend's father. Averted: Terry the security guard shows Martin his gun at the dance with the assassin on the way, and it never comes into play.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: Grocer's "Popcorn!", later used when Martin kills him with a TV. When Martin calls Dr. Oatman because he's stressing out about going to the reunion, Dr. Oatman tells him to "take a deep breath and realize that 'this is me breathing'". After the reunion, Martin calls him again and leaves a message telling him to "take a deep breath and realize that this is me firing you."
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: During the final battle, Grocer quotes selections from Revelation 13:1-4.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_26b5058e	type	Lame Rhyme Dodge
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_26b5058e	comment	Lame Rhyme Dodge:
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2960ad68	type	Microwave Misuse
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2960ad68	comment	Microwave Misuse: Felix puts a potato-sized lump of plastic explosive in a microwave at a convenience store in an attempt to kill Martin.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: During the reunion, Martin has a deep and profoundly spiritual conversation with a baby using nothing but facial expressions. The baby manages to convince Martin that cynicism isn't the way, and that there really is some good in this life, and it's worth pursuing.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2bf7f3ab	type	Apathetic Clerk
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2bf7f3ab	comment	Apathetic Clerk: The convenience store clerk is so wrapped up in playing an arcade game and listening to music on his headphones, that he doesn't notice the gun fight going on behind him.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Grocer. There's not a lot of other killers in film that would think it's a good idea to tell someone they're going to kill him by singing a ditty set to "She'll Be Coming 'Round The Mountain".
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The drunken former bully, still very much living the Jerk Jock persona, is effortlessly talked out of a fight by Martin and tries to read him some of his poetry.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: Used a good deal by all of the assassin characters (e.g. after botching a hit, Martin complains to his psychiatrist about problems with "concept execution"), and is lampshaded by one of the NSA agents after his partner refers to "waxing" Martin. He complains about the partner using weasel words like that, wondering why he can't simply say "kill". Recurs briefly later on when the partner talks about "neutralizing" Martin.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2f1fa94c	type	Mysterious Middle Initial
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_2f1fa94c	comment	Mysterious Middle Initial: Martin Q. Blank.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike:
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Martin, to himself, says that he'd kill nearly any of his classmates for the right price. However, earlier in the movie, he flat out refuses a job to blow up a Greenpeace ship on moral grounds, and later gets insulted when it's believed he killed a dog.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: The NSA does not have field agents. Also, they're not supposed to do anything domestically. Their job is to monitor foreign communications. FBI agents would be the ones after hitmen like Martin.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_35b429f3	type	Weird Trade Union
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_35b429f3	comment	Weird Trade Union: Lampshaded/Parodied as Dan Aykroyd's character is interested in creating a union for assassins. Martin considers this idea stupid, given that people become assassins precisely because they are loners who don't work well with others.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3eb0f889	type	Pun-Based Title
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3eb0f889	comment	Pun-Based Title: The title is a pun on Grosse Pointe (the setting), "point blank," and the main character's last name (Blank).
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: Martin appears this way when first encountered. Later averted, as he reconnects with his humanity and past.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3fa77b51	type	Head Smashes Screen
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_3fa77b51	comment	Head Smashes Screen: Grocer gets dispatched by a TV set to the face that's thrown above a kitchen counter. Electricity is heard and the body twitches before it stops moving.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_43b785f9	type	Nothing but Hits
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_43b785f9	comment	Nothing but Hits: Justified, as the film's soundtrack comprises 1980s hits played by one character on a radio station, choosing this playlist in honor of the reunion.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Felix the Basque assassin claims the name tag of a no-show to gain entry to Martin's reunion. When you consider the name Sidney can be male or female, it's even funnier.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: After Martin finds out his old home is now a mini-mart, he calls Marcella and tells her to find out where his mother is - "I want my mom."
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: While in the middle of grappling with another hitman out to kill Martin, he winds up killing his enemy by stabbing him in the neck with a pen. He also ends up killing Grocer with a TV set.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_4c083756	type	Signed Up for the Dental
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_4c083756	comment	Signed Up for the Dental: When Martin tells Debi that he's a professional killer, she asks if he gets dental with that, but he tells her no.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Martin, near the end of the film.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_4ff6f484	type	Trash the Set
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_4ff6f484	comment	Trash the Set: Ultimart gets turned to ash in the middle of the film.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: When Martin uncaps the pen to kill Felix.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_508d91a2	comment	"Popcorn!"
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Debi's father is to be killed because he's blowing the whistle on his company's leaky sunroof in a car they make.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_520c77b4	type	Ignored Confession
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_520c77b4	comment	Ignored Confession: Martin admits to everyone who asks that he's an assassin. No one takes him seriously.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_52b36340	type	What Measure Is a Mook?
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_52b36340	comment	What Measure Is a Mook?: During the climax, Martin shoots someone through the front door, without even looking at them or waiting for them to attack first.note The mook, shown briefly afterward, could be mistaken for Terry the security guard, but has a completely shaved head and leather jacket rather than Terry's balding pattern and security uniform. But the fact that it COULD have been Terry just reinforces this trope!
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Grocer comes off this way. Martin too, to an extent, although he tends to be more "affably amoral." Marcella, Martin's secretary/assistant/facilitator, is incredibly chipper and friendly for someone who helps her boss in committing murder.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: Martin does this during the film's climactic gun battle and the Store shootout. Grocer perforates his target with two handguns in the prologue, as well as in the climax.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_55719ceb	type	Service Sector Stereotypes
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_55719ceb	comment	Service Sector Stereotypes: There is a ditzy waitress in the diner Martin and Grocer go to; the guy who works at the convenience store (formerly Martin's home) has a Burger Fool personality; two of the assassins Grocer wants for his Weird Trade Union are Filipina maids who are described as "queens of the hotel hit".
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: Arguably, Martin's justifications make him an example of this type.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Grocer and Martin briefly team up to kill the NSA agents. Lampshaded by Grocer:
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Martin confesses at the climax that the reason he ran away from Debi was because he realised he wanted to murder someone, anyone, and didn't want her to be anywhere near him. The following speech (interspersed with a gunfight) yo-yos between a Motive Rant, a Heel Realisation and an Anguished Declaration of Love.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Martin and Grocer's conversation about "the good old days" contains a boatload of references that assume the audience is well-read on recent history:
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_65c49e05	type	The Villain Knows Where You Live
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_65c49e05	comment	The Villain Knows Where You Live: The assassin protagonist tries to convince his psychiatrist to continue seeing him (the psychiatrist freaked out when his patient revealed his profession). The protagonist mentions doctor-patient confidentiality as a reason why their continued visits wouldn't be a problem and then adds, "And besides, I know where you live". Given the protagonist's admitted profession and the fact that he would know the psychiatrist by name, that's not so hard to believe.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_67b24bc8	type	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_67b24bc8	comment	Why We Are Bummed: Communism Fell: A large part of Grocer's reason for setting up his "union" is due to recently available former Soviet and Eastern Bloc assassins flooding the market.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "This is me breathing." Dr. Oatman reminds Martin to say it to himself as part of his therapy, and then Martin repeats it later when cocking his gun.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Blank is dealing with a pervading sense emptiness in his life. Grocer wants to commodify the assassination industry, turning hitmen into interchangeable products like in a grocery store.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6c4ad9e2	type	Oblivious Janitor Cut
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6c4ad9e2	comment	Oblivious Janitor Cut: The Ultimart clerk plays an arcade game while a gunfight rages all around him. He doesn't notice until the protagonist yanks him out of the shop before it explodes.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: The death of little Boudreaux, the retriever. Made even worse by the fact that Boudreaux's death was not only an honest-to-God accident, it was also an accident Martin was not even tangentially involved in. It didn't stop him from being "the guy who blew up a dog".
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6e8a4791	type	Heroic Comedic Sociopath
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6e8a4791	comment	Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Martin.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: As a teen, John Cusack starred in several movies of the 1980s. Now he plays the Darker and Edgier lead in a movie filled with 80s nostalgia, both on a meta level and in-universe.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_72217e12	type	Murder, Inc.
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_72217e12	comment	Murder, Inc.: The creation of one of these, to avoid overlapping contracts, is a major plot point. All the way to the climax.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: A hyperactive Terry ridicules people pretending how everything was great at school.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7630e4d	type	Mirror Monologue
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7630e4d	comment	Mirror Monologue: Blank rehearsing for the reunion dance.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7b2ae131	type	All Guys Want Cheerleaders
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7b2ae131	comment	All Guys Want Cheerleaders: Somewhat lampshaded, as the character played by Jeremy Piven confesses that despite all of his successes, he feels worthless without gaining the attention of the Alpha Bitch from high school.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: When Debi finds out that Martin's Sarcastic Confession is actually an Ignored Confession;
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7bd88e4a	type	Slain in Their Sleep
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7bd88e4a	comment	Slain in Their Sleep: At one point, Martin attempts this via poisoning, but he botches the mission and has to shoot the now awake target.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7c7ee100	type	Cannot Tell a Lie
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7c7ee100	comment	Cannot Tell a Lie: Martin tries to come up with fake jobs to tell people in private but winds up telling almost everyone he meets that he is a professional killer. No one believes him until they see him actually kill somebody.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7efe1c56	type	Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7efe1c56	comment	Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: During one of his sessions, Martin revealed out of the blue that he was a career killer, and while his psychiatrist wants nothing to do with him, he keeps showing up.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Grocer is anxious to recruit Blank into his Hitman Guild, so there won't be any more "embarrassing overlaps."
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Grocer. BOUDREAUX'S COMIN' FOR YA! and singing how he's going to kill Martin to "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" at the climax. Martin's secretary Marcella is a marginally less sociopathic example.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Arlene Oslott-Joseph seems to be this. She's heavily involved in organizing the reunion, works the door and provides introductions with a fixed grin, but never actually enters the hall and socializes with her former classmates and seems to sit alone the entire evening.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Grocer and Blank, respectively.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8593b49	type	Twerp Sweating
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8593b49	comment	Twerp Sweating: Attempted by Debi's father ten years after his daughter was stood up on prom night, but his heart's not really in it.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: Shown somewhat when Debi accepts Martin's profession and nature in the end (with her father even proudly approving). Though to be fair, there's not really a smoother option, given the film's premise...
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8a30b162	type	ImprovisedWeaponUser
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8a30b162	comment	Improvised Weapon User: "I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork". During the film, Martin also kills with a fountain pen, a frying pan and a TV set.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In the climactic fight, Martin continues firing bullet after bullet at one of Grocer's henchmen even after the guy is obviously dead. Later on, both Martin and Grocer do the same to the two NSA agents.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8e5fdcd5	type	Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_8e5fdcd5	comment	Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement: "What am I supposed to say to people? 'I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?'"
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_90bc139e	type	Justified Title
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_90bc139e	comment	Justified Title: His name is Martin Blank, and he returns to his hometown of Grosse Pointe. He shoots people.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: To Martin's continual insistence.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Subverted. When Martin tells his secretary that he's retiring and is coming to get her, she thinks that he's coming to kill her, but he's actually left a retirement fund for her, and is coming to pick her up.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_944cd768	type	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_944cd768	comment	Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: He tries to reestablish his bullying relationship with Martin, who's moved on so far in his life that he can't even be bothered to beat him up. In response, the bully tries to open up to him and read some poetry, with Martin's (admittedly rather hollow and back-handed) praise possibly providing some sort of minor closure/reconciliation for the guy.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: After visiting his crazy mother in an asylum, Martin is shown visiting his father's grave and pouring out a bottle of alcohol... then keeps pouring until the bottle is empty... and then drops the empty bottle on the grave. It's clearly not a tribute, and we later learn he was an alcoholic.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Martin realizes how hollow his life is before the movie plays out, but it isn't until the reunion he's propelled to do something about it.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Grocer plays with it. He is not faking being affable but he has absolutely zero remorse in killing the guy he was being friendly to a second ago and treating it like some sort of prank or game.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Well, dark action-comedy, but Martin and a baby(Katelyn And Zoey Rosen(who previously portrayed Matilda as a newborn baby in [[Matilda]] having a deep and profoundly spiritual conversation about life using only Facial Dialogue really stands out for how sweet and moving it is.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_9d70c212	type	Sassy Secretary
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_9d70c212	comment	Sassy Secretary: Marcella.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Most of the fight scenes pop out of nowhere side by side with the "man comes home and reconnects with his past" story. It's hilarious and deftly handled. The fact that 80s hits often play over the fights doesn't hurt.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Martin murders several people over the course of the film, including at least one who was at least notionally innocent of wrongdoing, and gets away with it.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: During the climactic gun battle, the NSA spooks burst in through the patio doors and both start firing at Martin, who while hiding from Grocer is in plain sight for them. Not only does neither of them hit him, they both get blown away by Martin and Grocer, when he stands up from where he'd been hiding from Martin.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a9f8a98b	type	Licked by the Dog
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_a9f8a98b	comment	Licked by the Dog: The baby that really likes Martin at the reunion.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_aa822c89	type	Disappointed by the Motive
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_aa822c89	comment	Disappointed by the Motive: Mr. Newberry, Debi's father, is more than a little surprised that whistle-blowing his company placing a leaky sunroof in one of their vehicle models merits the company hiring multiple assassins to silence him.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Martin's delayed reaction when he stares down a potato bomb in a microwave at Ultimart.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ad362cc1	type	Dead Air
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ad362cc1	comment	Dead Air: Debi when Martin walks into her studio.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Martin, Dr. Oatman, Debi and Marcella.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: "It's not me." "You're a handsome devil. What's your name?" "Popcorn!" "If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there."
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Parodied with a Lampshade Hanging:
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines: In this scene, the villain is never seen/heard reloading, and fires way more bullets than his guns should theoretically be able to hold. In the opening, Grocer fires about 27 shots from a pair of 6-shot revolvers.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_bd620d3c	type	In Love with the Mark
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_bd620d3c	comment	In Love with the Mark : Or in this case, his daughter.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: A boatload of them. The Big Bad wanting to make a Weird Trade Union is even one of the plot points.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The man on a bicycle in one of the assassination set pieces recalls a bit of recurring physical comedy in Cusack's earlier Better off Dead. In one scene, Martin attempts to assassinate someone by dripping poison down a thread hanging from the ceiling. This method was taken from You Only Live Twice, which itself borrowed the idea from a Japanese Ninja movie Shinobi no Mono (Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay to the former and had seen the latter while in Japan). The failed assassination that gets Martin a lot of ribbing is either a shout-out or a case of Strange Minds Think Alike to a method successfully used in the Jack London story Moon-Face. The game the gas station clerk is playing is Doom in an arcade cabinet. However, there is no actual arcade version of Doom. In the climactic shootout, Martin kills Grocer by smashing a TV on his head.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Lampshaded, as in one scene, Martin mentions his childhood problems (an alcoholic father and crazy mother) as probably having a role in his career choice. He even comments that while these don't justify his behavior, they explain it.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cb8947a4	type	Corporate Samurai
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cb8947a4	comment	Corporate Samurai: Martin (and by extension Marcella too) combines the personality of a ruthless businessman with that of an assassin and all of the hits he does during the movie involve him being hired by an auto company to kill whistleblowers.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Whichever automobile corporation wants Mr. Newberry (Debi's father) assassinated because they thought it would be cheaper and easier than fixing their newest model's leaky sunroof. Played for Laughs (dark ones, of course).
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cf231d54	type	Cool Teacher
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cf231d54	comment	Cool Teacher: Mrs. K comes across as this, especially since Martin only refers to her by that nickname. She also seems pretty astute; though she doesn't know anything about Martin's life, when he tells her, "I'm going home!" she asks him wryly, "Are you?"
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Per above; Martin is very open about his job. No one believes him.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d1affec1	type	That Came Out Wrong
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d1affec1	comment	That Came Out Wrong:
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Martin's best friend and girlfriend eventually find out he wasn't joking about his job. Neither of them are happy, and let him know it.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d609b01a	comment	Carnival of Killers: A disenchanted hitman attends his high school reunion only to cross paths with an assassin union who thinks he's trying to steal their hit.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d63af362	type	Dramatic Ammo Depletion
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_d63af362	comment	Dramatic Ammo Depletion: At the climax, after Blank and Grocer blow away the NSA agents in a brief moment of Enemy Mine alliance, they turn their guns on each other only for their guns to click empty. Grocer pulls out another pair of guns and tries to bait Martin into a trap by selling him one of them and tossing it into a place where he'll be wide open to Grocer's fire, while Martin instead improvises and kills Grocer by smashing his head with a TV.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_da12bcfb	type	You Can't Go Home Again
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_da12bcfb	comment	You Can't Go Home Again: Martin Blank returning to his childhood home and visiting his mother.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_db2f3581	comment	"You're a handsome devil. What's your name?"
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: One of Martin's old friends brings a gun to the reunion and literally dangles it in front of the camera, but it never ends up being used.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: If Martin's target hadn't been Debi's father, the movie would have been half an hour shorter with a Downer Ending. Lampshaded by Martin: "Dumb fucking luck."
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_e1c796e9	type	Diegetic Switch
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_e1c796e9	comment	Diegetic Switch: In this case, "Live and Let Die"-getic. Switches from the Guns N' Roses cover to an easy-listening instrumental version when Martin walks into the convenience store.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_e5f568e6	comment	Furnace Body Disposal: Martin is attacked by an assassin while at his high school reunion. He manages to kill the guy right before an old friend shows up. Convincing his friend to help him, they get the body to the school's basement and load it into the furnace. Points for realism when it's plain the door to the furnace is so hot they can barely touch it.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_e7db27c7	type	Sympathetic P.O.V.
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_e7db27c7	comment	Sympathetic P.O.V.: When the protagonist is an assassin, it makes it easier for the NSA agents antagonistic to him to seem evil. Of course, it doesn't hurt that they are dirty agents looking for a scapegoat rather than a real terrorist.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ea92aeb0	type	Concealment Equals Cover
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ea92aeb0	comment	Concealment Equals Cover: Both combatants use the shelves in a convenience store as cover during a heated gun battle. It works.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Paul at first, because he can't get over the fact Martin's back.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f197c220	type	Burger Fool
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f197c220	comment	Burger Fool: The air-headed guy who works at the convenience store which used to be Martin's home and on account of "Ace of Spades" by MotÃ¶rhead blaring in his headphones is completely oblivious to a brutal gunfight between Martin and another hitman.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f2b365c1	type	Libation for the Dead
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f2b365c1	comment	Libation for the Dead: Martin spills wine on his father's grave. A whole bottle's worth. The whole scene plays like Last Disrespects and it's cemented when we find out later that the deceased was an alcoholic.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f6b30338	type	Murder Is the Best Solution
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_f6b30338	comment	Murder Is the Best Solution: In a Black Comedy about assassins it's obvious that a lot of the jokes will revolve around this, but the climax merits mention by The Reveal that Mr. Newberry, the whistle-blower some automobile corporation wants silenced and it's the main reason all of the murderers are in town, was only revealing the fact that the company's most recent car model had a leaky sunroof. Newberry is actually surprised that his act earned such (literal) overkill.
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Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: In a memorable scene, Martin holds a baby and the infant takes to him immediately. More importantly, Martin takes to the baby just as quickly. Or, at least, has a revelation about people, life, etc... This is somewhat subverted, as the positive impression the audience and his love interest receive of him is shaken by the fact he has to stab a guy to death in self-defense with a pen. He earlier gets very angry (hell, it's the only thing he gets angry about) at the implication he killed a dog as collateral damage of one of his jobs.
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