High Fidelity (2000)

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Studio: Touchstone Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Mar 31, 2000
Running Time: 107 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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Rob Gordon is the owner of a semi-failing record store in Chicago where he sells music the old fashioned way- on vinyl. He's a self-professed music junkie who spends his days at Championship Vinyl with his two employees Dick and Barry. Although they have an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music and are consumed with the music scene and creating their all-time favorite top-five lists of subject specific songs, it's of no help to Rob whose needle skips the love groove when his long-time girlfriend Laura walks out on him. As Rob examines his failed attempts at romance and happiness the process finds him being dragged kicking and screaming into adulthood.
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December 8, 2000
Top Five dream jobs? According to the diary of music freak Rob Gordon (John Cusack) in High Fidelity, here's Number One: "Journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, 1976-1979. Get to meet the Clash, Chrissie Hynde, Sex Pistols, David Byrne. Get tons of free records." Rob was born too late to fulfill his dream. Instead he opened a music store in Chicago, Championship Vinyl, that specializes in LPs. Rob is thirty-something now, and his girlfriend, Laura (Iben Hjejle), has just dumped him for living… Continued
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"What came first," Rob Gordon (John Cusack) desperately wants to know, "the music or the misery?"

Over-stimulated by the sounds coming out of his outsize headphones, morose Rob is seizing the moment of his breakup with Laura (Iben Hjejle) to reflect on "the thousands of hours of heartache, rejection, pain, misery and loss" he experienced while exposing himself to wave after wave of popular music. "Did I listen because I was miserable," he wonders, "or was I miserable because I listened?"

Further… Continued