The film High Fedelity is based on a best selling novel and stars John Cusack, Jack Black, Todd Louiso and Iben Hjejle. The film sees music lover Rob Gordon (Cusack) owning a record shop which employs two clerks (Black and Lousio) which is doing just about enough to stay afloat. The thing that has sunk in his life is love - as his long time girlfriend (Hjejle) leave him. This sparks him to look at his past experiences the only way he knows how - by picking his top five, ranking them in order and going to find out why they left him and now with someone else! The film is great and the production quality is very high. The performances here are top ...  Read the complete review

There aren't many authors that I consider myself a fan of - I'm not a great reader and rarely find an author that I enjoy reading more than a couple of books of...Nick Hornby, however, I generally rate pretty well...And amongst his books, High Fidelity is maybe my favourite. It's also pretty rare that I see a film of a book and don't feel completely let down by it...and despite the rather unnecessary move from London to Chicago, I really don't feel too let down by the movie adaptation of High Fidelity at all - I think it's a well made film...and whilst you're never going to have the same amount of detail in a 2 hour film, High Fidelity does a good job of ...  Read the complete review

Nick Hornby's romantic novel gets a US workover here, transporting the tale from the UK over the pond to Chicago to tell of record store owner Rob Gordon (John Cusack) who breaks up with his girlfriend and tries to work out his failed love life through making a music-style compilation of his top 5 breakups. I really liked this film, not because of the romance side of things, or because of the plot at all, but because of the music and the acting. Cusack has that ability to give a withering and satirical look to the camera or another character any time he's on screen, and does so here on a number of occasions. He whizzes through the film in a very matter of fact ...  Read the complete review

High Fidelity is a comedy from 2000, starring John Cusack and directed by Stephen Frears. It is adapted from the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. On a mini Cusack marathon at the moment! Here he stars as Rob Gordon, an independent recordstore owner, who on splitting up with his girlfriend Laura (Danish actress Iben Hjejle) compiles a list of 5 ex-girlfriends who have caused him more heartache than her (being a bit of a geek it's always lists of 5s between him and his friends, whether its best first tracks on an album or girls). He follows this up by tracking them down to ask them why they broke up with him so he can make sense of why he's destined to be ...  Read the complete review

It has taken me ages to get round to watching this film. Its one that I've always fancied and I always heard really positive reviews of it. So I recently got round to giving it a go. High Fidelity came out back in 2000. Its a kind of dark comedy starring John Cusack and Jack Black. Based on the excellent book by Nick Hornby and produced by Stephen Frears the film was nominated for a golden globe and won a few other smaller awards. The film tells the story of Rob (John Cusack), a record store owner. We learn about his love life or more to the point lack of it. Rob is a compulsive list maker, he has lists for everything. Top 5 pretty much ...  Read the complete review