High Fidelity
"High Fidelity" is the ultimate in goofy movie hipness, so cool that it doesn't even seem to be trying (which of course is the only way to BE cool). For example, the pop-music aficionados in the film automatically disqualify a song from possible inclusion in a Top 5 list because of its association with "The Big Chill": Did you even know "The Big Chill" was un-hip? I didn't, and I consider myself pretty with-it. John Cusack, doing his lovable sad-sack bit to perfection, stars as Rob Gordon, a record-store owner. By which I mean he owns a store that actually sells records -- you know, the old vinyl things that have been replaced by CDs (which he also sells, but which he clearly has no passion for). He and his employees, vulgar pop music-elitist Barry (Jack Black) and soft-spoken Dick (Todd Louiso) sit around and come up with odd Top 5 lists: Top five side one/track one songs from albums; top five songs about death; you get the idea. Rob even has a person Top Five Worst Break-ups -- a category into which his recent split with Laura (Iben Hjejle) has broken into at No. 5 "with a bullet."
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