8. High Fidelity
Every person who has ever went through a break up has asked the ever reaching question of what went wrong. John Cusack in High Fidelity fits the everyman role that is necessary in a romantic comedy while carefully crafting a neurotic nature that is both charming and funny. Once again, this film starts with a break up and the film progresses because of that break up. A problem with a lot of romantic comedies is the fact that the female protagonist seems to be with a male figure in which it would be inconceivable how they would stay for so long. The male protagonist is usually a slacker and in this case that is what happened. The female protagonist ends the relationship because John Cusack was a slacker with no future. That is so refreshing. And in order to get her back, he goes on a quest to discover this problem and has to change himself for the woman he loves but not in a Shes All That type of way in which he changes his outfit. Cusacks character is able to grow out of his overgrown adolescence to be able to fully commit to an adult relationship and thats why they get back together. This has to be taken note of with all the films now about adults stuck in adolescence as those characters never seem to grow into a more mature adult thus making the central relationships of those films questionable.