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John Cusack: Lloyd Dobler
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In 1989, John Cusack starred in “Say Anything…,” the directorial début of a somewhat successful screenwriter named Cameron Crowe. Cusack played Lloyd Dobler, a just-graduated high-school senior who was so thoroughly the idealized first boyfriend every girl wanted that if Crowe were a woman, we would have all suspected that he was using the screenplay to live out some wish-fulfillment fantasy. As it was, Lloyd the character became conflated, in the minds of many girls of a certain age bracket, with Cusack, the actor, and many crushes were born in young women’s impressionable hearts across North America.
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Lloyd (John Cusack), an eternal optimist, seeks to capture the heart of Diane (Ione Skye), an unattainable high school beauty and straight-A student. She surprises just about everyone -- including herself -- when she returns the sentiment and begins to fall for Lloyd. Read More
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John Paul Cusack is a film actor and writer, from a family that includes an actor father and siblings. He first became famous in the mid-1980s for appearing in teen movies such as "Class" (1983), "Sixteen Candles" (1984), "Better Off Dead" (1985), "The Sure Thing" (1985) and "One Crazy Summer" (1986). His biggest success in that genre is arguably his starring role as Lloyd Dobler in Cameron Crowe's "Say Anything" (1989).
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[I]n 1997, Cusack starred with Nicolas Cage, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi in the blockbuster Con Air from director Simon West. Later that year he starred with Kevin Spacey in the Warner Bros. Pictures' feature Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, directed by Clint Eastwood. Based on John Berendt's nonfiction bestseller of the same name, Cusack portrayed John Kelso, the movie version of the author/narrator. Additionally, Cusack lent his voice to the full-length animated feature Anastasia, opposite the voices of Meg Ryan as Anastasia, Christopher Lloyd as Rasputin, and Kelsey Grammer as Vladimir.
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Cusack first became famous in the mid-1980s for appearing in teen movies such as Better Off Dead, The Sure Thing, One Crazy Summer, and Sixteen Candles. Cusack made a cameo in the 1988 music video for "Trip At The Brain" by Suicidal Tendencies. His biggest success in that genre is arguably his starring role as Lloyd Dobler in Cameron Crowe's Say Anything. He began broadening his choice of roles in the late 1980s and early 1990s with more serious-minded fare, such as the political satire True Colors and the noir thriller The Grifters.
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Never named an official member of the Brat Pack, Cusack hovered at the perimeter of that famous '80s gang, starring alongside Rob Lowe and Andrew McCarthy in Class (1983) and with Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles (1984). He broke free and starred in camp hits The Sure Thing (1985) and Better Off Dead… (1985). Then he became an icon. Hopeless romantics everywhere idealized Cusack's famous romeo Lloyd Dobler in 1989's Say Anything. It took a few years for him to break free from that mold, but plying a hit man in the black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank helped. It ... re-booted his career after a near seven-year absence.
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