John Cusack Trivia

1. When and where was John Cusack born?

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Answer: June 28, 1966, Evanston, Illinois

It was his sister, Joan Cusack, who was born on October 11, 1962.

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Answer: Class

His first role was in "Class" (1983), when he was just 16 years old. He played the character of Roscoe Maibaum, a private school student. This movie also marked the film debuts of such stars as Andrew McCarthy and Virginia Madsen.

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Answer: 7th

Seven! They appeared together in the following films: "High Fidelity" (2000), "Cradle Will Rock" (1999), "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997), "Say Anything" (1989), "Broadcast News" (1987), "Grandview, U.S.A." (1984) and "Sixteen Candles" (1984).

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Answer: High Fidelity

In 2001, John was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of record store owner Rob Gordon in "High Fidelity". However, he lost out to George Clooney for his performance in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

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Answer: Lloyd Dobler & Lloyd & Dobler

Cusack's role in "Say Anything" was his last teenaged role. "He (Cusack) gave her his heart, and she (Ione Skye) gave him a pen."

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Answer: Jeremy Piven & Piven

John and Jeremy Piven grew up together in Chicago, and John attended the Piven Theatre Workshop run by Jeremy Piven's parents. John and Jeremy have done more than 10 movies together including "One Crazy Summer" (1986), "Elvis Stories" (1989), "Say Anything..." (1989), "The Player" (1992), "Floundering" (1994), "The Grifters" (1990), "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997), "Serendipity" (2001) and "Runaway Jury" (2003). Recently Piven has found his own career success in the HBO series "Entourage" for which he received an Emmy for Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2006.

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Answer: Autobiographically

John was not only the producer of this film, but he was also a writer (for its screenplay) and the musical supervisor.

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Answer: America's Sweethearts

In 2001, John played Eddie Thomas in this film, written by and co-starring Billy Crystal. John's character was an actor who ends up in a treatment center after he catches his actress wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones) cheating on him. However, he then begins to fall in love with her sister Kiki (Julia Roberts).

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Answer: Class

"Class" was released in 1983 and featured Cusack as Roscoe Maibaum.

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Answer: Anastasia

John voiced the character of Dimitri in 1997's "Anastasia", opposite the voices of Meg Ryan and Kelsey Grammer.

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Answer: Tim Robbins

This sprouted many fantasies from his character's mind. One of which involved Rob grabbing an old telephone and smashing Ray's (Tim) face in. Ian "Ray" Raymond was the character played by Tim Robbins.

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Answer: New Crime Productions

His production company is called New Crime Productions and has produced "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997), "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998), and "The Jack Bull" (1999) as well as various stage productions. He founded the company with two of his high school buddies, Steve Pink and D.V. DeVincentis.

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Answer: "Life is a cookie."

John enters a mental rehabilitation center after Catherine Zeta-Jones dumps him for Hank Azaria.

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Answer: Jonathan Trager

"Serendipity" is the story of Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas two people who meet while shopping for Christmas presents for the respective lovers in New York City. After spending a magical evening together they decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brings them back together... Nicholas Easter was his character in "Runaway Jury" (2003), Craig Schwartz was his character in "Being John Malkovich" (1999) and Lane Meyer was his character in "Better Off Dead" (1985).

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Answer: standing in the rain

He is almost always found standing in the rain on the phone, watching someone, or doing something else that requires him to look so brooding and lovely.

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Answer: Max

This was one of John's dramatic roles, and some had to get used to seeing a not-so-nice side of him come out through his character.

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Answer: Grace is Gone

"Grace is Gone" is about a man who learns that his wife, Grace was killed in the Iraq war, and takes his two daughters on a camping trip before giving them the sad news. John plays Stanley Phillips the widower. The other three films, "The Pool," "Never Forever" and "Starting out in the Evening" were three other entrants at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Answer: blew up

This line is from the film "Better Off Dead" (1985). Probably my favourite John Cusack movie for various reasons. Cusack says this to his neighbour, Ricky, after his mom essentially blows up after lighting a cigarette after accidentally drinking turpentine at dinner.

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