Hitman History
Martin Blank’s job isn’t “consulting” — he’s actually this kind of professional.
What is a professional assassin?
Martin returns home for this milestone high school event.
What is his ten-year high school reunion?
Martin’s high school sweetheart, Debi Newberry, now works as this kind of local media personality.
What is a radio disc jockey / radio DJ
his fellow assassin keeps trying to recruit Martin into an “assassin’s union.”
Who is Grocer?
Who directed Grosse Pointe Blank?
George Armitage.
At the start of the film, Martin is based in this West Coast city.
What is Los Angeles?
Grosse Pointe is a suburb in this U.S. state.
What is Michigan?
Martin abandoned Debi on prom night to enlist in this branch of the U.S. armed forces.
What is the army?
Lardner and McCullers, the two men tailing Martin, work for this U.S. agency.
What is the NSA?
The star who plays Martin Blank also shares screenplay credit on the film.
Who is John Cusack?
While on a job in this Florida city, Martin botches an attempt to fake a natural death and has to shoot his target.
What is Miami?
Martin discovers that his childhood home has been demolished and replaced by this type of business.
What is a convenience store?
Debi’s father, who becomes the focus of Martin’s contract, shares this first name.
Who is Bart (Bart Newberry)?
Grocer explains that Felix was hired by this kind of pet owner, angry that Martin killed a prized animal on a previous job.
Who is a wealthy dog owner whose prized retriever was killed?
The movie was made on a budget of about how many millions of dollars?
What is $15 million?
To make amends for the Miami fiasco, Martin is ordered to kill a federal whistleblower in this Michigan city near his hometown.
What is Detroit?
Martin’s widowed, estranged mother Mary now lives in this type of facility and suffers from dementia.
What is a nursing home?
Martin’s assistant, who arranges his jobs and later receives a large severance package when he retires, has this first name.
Who is Marcella?
Martin kills a hitman at the high school reunion with this everyday writing tool.
What is a pen?
The story takes place in Michigan, but most filming happened in which California city?
What is Monrovia, California?
Army psychological testing found Martin had “moral flexibility,” prompting this U.S. intelligence agency to recruit him as an assassin.
What is the CIA?
Martin reconnects with this old friend from high school, played by Jeremy Piven.
Who is Paul Spericki?
At the very end, Debi uses her pre-recorded final radio show to say she has decided to do this.
What is give love another chance?
Grocer wants to impress Martin’s client and eliminate him as a competitor by personally killing this character.
Who is Bart Newberry, Debi’s father?
The film’s score was created by a former lead singer of The Clash
Joe Strummer.