15 Movies You Won’t Believe Are 20 Years Old

14. Grosse Pointe Blank

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Buena Vista Pictures

A comedy that manages to be darkly funny, violent and romantic, Grosse Pointe Blank sees John Cusack in one of his best roles to date as a depressed freelance hitman named Martin Blank who receives a contract kill in his Michigan hometown which just so happens to coincide with his ten-year high school reunion.

Unfortunately for Martin, his work has followed him home and alongside trying to reconcile with Debi (Minnie Driver), the high school sweetheart he jilted at their prom a decade earlier, he’s also being stalked by a couple of fellow hitmen and NSA agents.

There’s great chemistry between Cusack and Driver alongside brilliant comic turns from Dan Ackroyd as a rival hitman who wants to unionise the profession and Alan Arkin as Martin’s terrified psychiatrist and a perfectly picked, 80s themed soundtrack to boot featuring classics from the likes of The Clash, Pixies and The Specials.

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