Who played hitman Martin Q Blank in the 1997 film ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’?
Grosse Pointe Blank Grosse Pointe Blank Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American crime comedy film directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd. Cusack plays a hitman who returns to his hometown to attend a high school reunion. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $31,070,412. Hitman Martin Blank finds himself depressed and disillusioned with his work. Grocer, his chief rival, is attempting to incorporate the hitman business but Martin refuses to join, putting the two at odds. Following a botched contract, Martin accepts an invitation to his high school reunion in his
Grosse Pointe Blank Grocer by smashing a television over his head. Injured and winded, Martin proposes marriage to Debi, who does not respond. Debi and Martin leave Grosse Pointe together. Screenwriter Tom Jankiewicz wrote the initial script for "Grosse Pointe Blank" in 1991 after receiving an invitation to his 10th high school reunion. He picked the title while substitute teaching for an English class at Upland High School, writing the title on the classroom's whiteboard to see how it would look on a movie-theater marquee. Jankiewicz decided to use Grosse Pointe, an upscale suburb of Detroit, Michigan, rather than his working-class hometown of