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Klute (1971)

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Reviews Counted:28

Fresh:27

Rotten:1

Average Rating:8/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Adapting the traditional structure of 1940s film noir detective movies, director Alan Pakula created a thriller that addressed the 1970s issue of the compromises faced by a woman trying to maintain... Adapting the traditional structure of 1940s film noir detective movies, director Alan Pakula created a thriller that addressed the 1970s issue of the compromises faced by a woman trying to maintain her freedom. Gloomy and stark, the film tracks Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), a Manhattan prostitute and aspiring actress in search of herself. Small-town private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland) arrives in Manhattan to find that Bree is the only lead in the disappearance of his good friend Tom Gruneman. Bree turns tricks for cash and a need for emotional freedom, wishing to remain unattached and in control. However, as she becomes involved in Klute's search and realizes she too is in danger, she also surprises herself by falling in love. Gordon Willis's (THE GODFATHER) cinematography provides a shadowy and claustrophobic atmosphere in which tapped phones and shadowy stalkers abound. [More]

Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam

Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam, Charles Cioffi, Nathan George, Dorothy Tristan, Jean Stapleton

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Director: Alan J. Pakula
Producer: Alan J. Pakula, David Lang
Screenwriter: Andy K. Lewis, David P. Lewis
Composer: Michael Small

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Feb 5, 2002

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One of the most important and influential movies of the early 1970s.

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09/15/09
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

[Fonda] makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance.

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08/30/09
Jay Cocks
Jay Cocks
TIME Magazine
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Sutherland is either an excellent sounding board for this nuanced portrait or he's a big zero, probably both. Fonda, however, transcends her limitations, making the most of her often forced quality as an actress.

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08/30/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Fonda is simply a revelation, beautiful, sassy and streetwise, and yet hauntingly vulnerable. She deserved her Oscar in a role she has never bettered.

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08/30/09
Channel 4 Film

For once, a genuinely psychological thriller.

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02/09/06
Geoff Andrew
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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07/29/05
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)

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06/25/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Fonda won an Oscar. Roy Scheider is her nasty pimp!

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04/22/05
Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith
Nolan's Pop Culture Review

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03/26/05
Jonathan R. Perry
Jonathan R. Perry
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Fonda and Sutherland sizzle. A great story too.

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10/15/04
Steve Crum
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Kansas City Kansan

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09/23/04
Nell Minow
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06/29/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

A knock-out

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06/12/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Pakula, when he is not indulging in subjective camera, strives to give his film the look of structural geometry, but despite the sharp edges and dramatic spaces and cinema presence out of Citizen Kane, it all suggests a tepid, rather tasteless mush.

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05/21/03
Roger Greenspun
Roger Greenspun
New York Times
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Fonda and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fasinating look into the mind and soul of a top NYC callgirl.

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Marjorie Baumgarten
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Austin Chronicle

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02/21/03
Brian J. Arthurs
Brian J. Arthurs
Beach Reporter (Southern California)

A gripping suspense thriller; Fonda tough and vulnerable deserved her Oscar here.

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10/23/02
Bob Bloom
Bob Bloom
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

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08/29/02
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Fonda's riveting performance is impossible to shake

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08/04/02
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
 
 
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