![]() If this movie were to come out today, it would include Justin Timberlake’s Sexyback and Rihanna’s Umbrella, songs just fading out of the consciousness but still regularly played if you’re listening to the right radio stations. The music of the 80s was fading away, but hadn’t quite had a chance to die yet. Martin’s 10 year reunion also provided an excuse to bring back all of the music from 1987 for one final hurrah. Grosse Pointe is a veritable wealth bubble that provides a distance from the big city life Martin has been living in sunny California. It’s precious, quaint, and a jarring disconnect from the brutal reality of poverty and violence that was happening 8 miles away in Detroit. Grosse Pointe’s downtown is made of a bedroom community of storefronts that maintain an atmosphere of 1950s Mayberry. Back in 2000, the median household income was $89k. It was one of the first commuter suburbs of Metro Detroit, and full of upper-middle-class money. Even though Grosse Pointe is about 8 miles east of Detroit, back in 2000 it was 97% white. Using Grosse Pointe as a setting contains a political and metaphoric contrast. Ghosts from his past haunt every nook and cranny and his present is chasing him down in the form of Grocer (Dan Ackroyd), a fellow assassin trying to form an assassin union. His father is dead, his mother is crazy, his childhood home is now a convenience mart and gas station. In the meantime, Grosse Pointe has changed. Since leaving, he turned into a disturbed loner who assassinates people for money. On prom night, Martin stood up his girlfriend Debi (Minnie Driver) to run off and join the army. He left his hometown, Grosse Pointe, MI, and never looked back. ![]() ![]() Blank (John Cusack) hasn’t been home for 10 years. By the time you come back, you have a certain set of expectations from the nostalgic memories we all harbor about our home. Everything changes apart from each other. If it comes back to you, well, it’s broken.Īs soon as you leave, things change.
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