r/movies • u/shopdog • 25d ago

Question What happened to John Cusack?

Looking at his IMDB page and he's in a bunch of crap (rated 5.0 or lower) movies and a Chinese produced movies (judging from the original titles and posters).

He was in a lot of my favorite movies from the 80s until the teens and then just seemed to disappear.

Did something happen to his career? Self inflicted?

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u/SourArmoredHero 25d ago

I don't know but I love him in High Fidelity.

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u/Canadairy 25d ago

The movie is surprisingly close to the novel, aside from being set in the US instead of the UK. 

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u/im_totally_working 24d ago

I saw the movie before reading the book, then watched it again after reading it. It’s actually INCREDIBLY well adapted. It’s always stuck with me that there’s a scene in the movie where Rob gets a phone call and starts to jot down an address before Liz comes in and calls him a fucking asshole. When first watching the movie it just seems like something for him to be doing to be interrupted, but that phone call is actually a whole chapter or two in the book that they couldn’t fit into the movie.