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A Very Serious Question I Have For The Screenwriter of "Grosse Pointe Blank"
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A Very Serious Question I Have For The Screenwriter of "Grosse Pointe Blank"

1,500 words about one line in a movie that came out 25 years ago.

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I was watching the film Grosse Pointe Blank a few weeks ago. It’s wonderful. Everyone who saw it knows it’s wonderful but it actually didn’t do terribly well at the box office so maybe lots of people haven’t seen it. It’s also not a movie that people seem to talk about much so it’s sort of a perfect film to revisit.

Anyway, there is a moment in it I keep…

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