Grosse Pointe Blank

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

8 corrected entries

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Correction: Old CRT-style TVs contain capacitors which can still hold a dangerous level of electricity, especially when the screen is smashed as happens here.

Correction: Who says he was electrocuted? I think getting your head bashed in by a huge TV would be enough to at least knock a guy out.

Brian Katcher

Correction: We never see Martin Blank smoking, but we never see him taking a shower, either - and that doesn't mean he doesn't do so. Perhaps he's a very light smoker and only has one or two a day. something we aren't around to see?

Correction: Given how he found the joint he hid in his high school locker, he smoked at some point in his life.

Brian Katcher

Corrected entry: Blank's assistant says she booked him on a flight to Michigan, but all the while he's in Michigan, he's driving his car, toting a huge suitcase of weapons. Later, she tries to confirm he's going to be on a plane home as well.

Correction: It is a common practice (at least in movies) for hitmen to travel by plane and pick up their weapons when they arrive. We can assume the weapons were shipped ahead of time and will be left behind when he returns.

Corrected entry: At the end of the gunfight at the Ultimart when the bomb in the microwave goes off the explosion starts at the back of the store, by the chillers (right hand side), and not the front where the microwave oven was located (left hand side, by the doors).

Correction: The microwave is located at the back of the store. If you walk into the store and go straight to the back wall, as soon as you turn right to go down the last aisle, it is there on the counter. Freeze-framing my DVD shows that is where the explosion originates.

Corrected entry: When John Cusack and Dan Aykroyd are sitting in the coffee shop, John Cusack knocks a plate out of the waitress' hand onto the floor and the waitress bends down to pick it up. John Cusack runs for the door, the camera pans back, and there is no waitress and no mess on the floor.

Melissa

Correction: The waitress is shown ducking and running once Martin stands up. The mess on the floor is blocked by items on another table in the foreground.

ChiChi

Corrected entry: In the scene where Dan Aykroyd's character pulls up alongside John Cusack's car, as Aykroyd pulls up Cusack is leaning on the outside of his car talking on his cell phone. They hang up and then talk in person and the camera focuses on them. Once Aykroyd drives away the phone rings again, only this time it's now inside his car without him having moved it.

Correction: Not the same phone. The cell phone is still outside on the trunk; what's ringing is the CAR phone. Rather obvious, since the one in the car is shaped and colored differently from Martin's cell phone.

Phil C.

Corrected entry: When Martin Blank is at the High School reunion he meets an old friend with a baby who hands it to him. After he gives the child back, he takes a photo of the baby and mother. However, the "photo" is represented by a freeze frame with the back of Martin Blank's head in it - impossible if he's the one taking it.

Correction: I think it was the director's decision to do it that way. It would have been awkward for the camera behind Martin to switch to the camera he's holding to take the picture. He captured the moment in a photo without making that extra cut.

Corrected entry: Blank dials his psychiatrist but only uses 7 numbers (plus Send) on his cell phone. Being out of state, he should have dialed 10 numbers.

Correction: My cell phone will automatically dial my home area code (if I do not type in an alternate area code) no matter what part of the country I am in. So, if I am in LA, and need to call home in NY, I don't have to bother with the first 3 numbers. So it is conceivable that Cusack's character is dialing his home area, and does not need to put in the area code, thus only the 7 digits.

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Blank gives Debi an aeroplane ride on his feet, he takes off his cap to lie on the bed. When he gets up to leave the cap appears in his hand without his ever retrieving it from the bedpost where he hung it.

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Debi Newberry: You're a psychopath.
Martin Blank: No, no. Psychopaths kill for no reason. I kill for money. It's a job... That didn't come out right.

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Trivia: The "goon" who winds up fighting John Cusack in the school hallway is Benny "The Jet" Urquidez. He is not only a world-class kickboxer but has also been John Cusack's real-life kickboxing coach for many years.

Mobrien316

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Question: Does anyone know what kind of pistols Martin Blank uses in this film? Also, is the gunfire sound they make accurate? It's very distinctive.

Phil C.

Chosen answer: His pistols are 9mm Glock 17's (http://www.glock.com/g17.jpg). No movie firearm shot is authentic as it would sound very flat and unexciting because the blank rounds used are very quiet (not much louder than clapping your hands actually). The shot sounds are added in post production.

Grumpy Scot

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