Fresh and fearless. A great movie if you get it.

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2000)

"Hi-fi" is a brave, creative, witty, and wry look at one young man's coming to grips with love and sorting through the requisite regrets, recriminations, rationalizations, reconcillations and ultimate realization. Built around an intelligent, non-stop script; a excellent talk-to-the-camera performance by Cusack; and a cadre of quality supporting actors, this film will be lauded and loathed for it's break-the-rules bravura, it's esoteric pop music purist milieu, and it's very male perspective. "Hi-fi" showcases a rising star on the American film frontier in Iben Hjejle and is possibly John Cusack's finest hour...so far.