In Popular Culture
- Grosse Pointe was where John Hughes spent the first twelve years of his life. It is also where the film Grosse Pointe Blank takes place, which stars John Cusack as a hitman who attends his ten year high school reunion; this is perhaps intended as a morbid parody of the John Hughes high school films that Cusack starred in.
- Jeffrey Eugenides' 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, and its subsequent 1999 film adaptation are set in Grosse Pointe.
- Maggie O'Connell, a character in the 1990's television series Northern Exposure was born and raised in Grosse Pointe. One episode entitled "Grosse Pointe, 48230" involved her visit home for a family reunion to commemorate her grandmother's birthday.
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