High Fidelity Page #11

Synopsis: Thirty-something Rob Gordon, a former club DJ, owns a not so lucrative used record store in Chicago. He not so much employs Barry and Dick, but rather keeps them around as they showed up at the store one day and never left. All three are vinyl and music snobs, but in different ways. Rob has a penchant for compiling top five lists. The latest of these lists is his top five break-ups, it spurred by the fact that his latest girlfriend, Laura, a lawyer, has just broken up with him. He believed that Laura would be the one who would last, partly as an expectation of where he would be at this stage in his life. Rob admits that there have been a few incidents in their relationship which in and of themselves could be grounds for her to want to break up. To his satisfaction, Laura is not on this top five list. Rob feels a need not only to review the five relationships, which go back as far as middle school when he was twelve, and try to come to terms with why the woman, or girl as the case may b
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Stephen Frears
Production: Buena Vista
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 21 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2000
113 min
2,432 Views


I changed my mind.

Thats the most romantic thing

Ive ever heard.

- I do. I will.

- Just shut up, please.

Im trying to explain, okay?

That other girl,

or other women, whatever-

I mean, I was thinking

that theyre just fantasies.

You know? And they always

seem really great...

because theres

never any problems.

And if there are,

theyre cute problems like...

you know, we bought each other

the same Christmas present...

or she wants to go see a movie

that Ive already seen, you know?

And then I come home, and

you and I have real problems...

and you dont even want to see

the movie I want to see, period.

- Theres no lingerie and-

- I have lingerie.

Yes, you do. You have great lingerie,

but you also have the cotton underwear...

thats been washed a thousand times,

and its hanging on the thing and-

A:

- And they have it too. Its just I dont have to see it because its not in the fantasy.

Do you understand?

I'm tired of the fantasy...

because it doesnt

really exist.

And there are never really

any surprises, and it never really-

- Delivers?

- Delivers.

Right. And I'm tired of it.

And Im tired of everything else,

for that matter.

But I dont ever seem

to get tired of you.

So-

I think I know what you mean.

But were you really

expecting me to say yes?

I dont know.

I didnt think about it really.

I thought asking

was the important part.

Well, youve asked. Thank you.

- All right!

- Uh, thanks for coming out here tonight.

That was just a little bit

of "I Sold My Moms Wheelchair... "

the title track

from the album of same name...

the record were having

this record release party for.

The two burgeoning criminals behind

this opus are standing by the bar.

Theyre underage, and

well lose our liquor license-

But well get to them in a moment.

First, I have to introduce a band,

so please dont leave...

until after they finish

and we play the record.

Right now, its my

great, great pleasure...

to introduce Sonic Death Monkey.

Im an idiot. I shouldve

played the whole album first.

- These people are gonna burn the place down.

- No, no, its gonna be fine.

Its gonna be fine.

These people are ready for anything.

- Its gonna be fine. Watch.

- Thank you.

Youre too kind. Rob, thank you

for the enthusiastic intro...

but were no longer

called Sonic Death Monkey.

Uh, were on the verge of being

called, uh, Kathleen Turner Overdrive.

However, this evening

we will be Barry Jive...

and the Uptown Five.

I been really tryin, baby

To hold on to this feeling

For so long

And if you feel

Like I feel, sugar, come on

Ohhh, come on, oooh

Lets get it on

Lets get it on

Lets love, sugar

Lets get it on

Sugar

Lets get it on

Whoo-ooh-ooh

We are all sensitive people

With so much to give

Understanding, sugar

Since we got to be

Lets live

I love you

Theres nothin wrong

With me loving you

And giving yourself to me

Could never be wrong

If the love is true, oh, baby

Dont you know

how sweet and wonderful

- Life can be

- The making of a great compilation tape...

like breaking up, is hard to do and

takes ages longer than it might seem.

You gotta kick it off with

a killer to grab attention.

Then you gotta take it up a notch,

but you dont want to blow your wad.

So then you gotta cool it off a notch.

There are a lot of rules.

Anyway, Ive started

to make a tape...

- Heres the songs that meet our ears

- in my head for Laura.

- And sights our eyes behold

- Full of stuff shed like.

Full of stuff thatd make her happy.

Well open up our merging hearts

- For the first time, I can sort of see how thats done.

- And see our empty souls

I believe when I fall in love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fall in love

This time it will be forever

Without despair

We will share

And the joys of caring

Will not be replaced

What has been

Must never end

And with the strength we have

Wont be erased

When the truth of love

are planned and firm

They wont be hard to find

And the words of love I speak to you

Will echo in my mind

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever, ever

Ever, ever, ever, ever

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever, ever, ever

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever, ever

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever

I believe when I fallin love with you

It will be forever

- God answered

- I believe when I fallin love

- My prayer

- With you it will be forever

- God answered my prayer

- I believe when I fall in love with you

- It will be forever

- Oh, baby

Well, I just got out my little red book

The minute that you said goodbye

I thumbed right through

my little red book

I wasnt gonna sit and cry

And I went from A to Z

I took out every pretty girl in town

They danced with me and as I held them

All I did was talk about you

Hear your name and Id start to cry

Theres just no getting over you

Oh, no

There aint no girl

in my little red book

Who could ever replace your charms

And each girl in my little red book

Knows youre the one Im thinking of

Oh, wont you please come back

Without your precious love I cant go on

Where can love be, I need you so much

All I did was talk, talk about you

Hear your name and Id start to cry

Theres just no getting over you

Oh, no

Oh, wont you please come back

Without your precious love I cant go on

Its haunting me, I need you so much

All I did was talk, talk about you

Hear your name and Id start to cry

Theres just no getting over you

All I did was talk, talk about you

Hear your name and, oh, Id start to cry

Theres just no getting over you

Oh, no

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