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Up Close & Personal (1996)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Reviews Counted: 33
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Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 4

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Movie Info

A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. It's based loosely on the real-life story of newscaster Jessica Savitch. Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfieffer) gets a job at a Miami TV station based on a demo tape from her hometown of Reno, Nevada. The station's news director is Warren Justice (Robert

PG-13, 2 hr. 4 min.

Drama, Romance

Directed By: Jon Avnet

Written By: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne

In Theaters: Mar 1, 1996 Wide

On DVD: Feb 20, 2001

Cast

Robert Redford
Warren Justice
Michelle Pfeiffer
Tally Atwater (formerly...
Stockard Channing
Marcia McGrath
Joe Mantegna
Bucky Terranova
Kate Nelligan
Joanna Kennelly
Glenn Plummer
Ned Jackson
Ed Amatrudo
Miami Reporter
Yareli Arizmendi
Inez Cifuentes
Lexie D. Bigham
Homeless Woman
Nicholas Cascone
WMIA Director
Raymond Cruz
Fernando Buttanda
Dennis Dun
Satellite Van Technicia...
Fabian
Himself
Julie Foreman
WMIA Producer
Nigel Gibbs
WFIL Floor Manager
Neil Giuntoli
Trailer Park Manager
Bruce Gray
Gabe Lawrence
Charlie Holliday
Priest
James Karen
Tom Orr
Michael Laskin
IBS Director
Salvadore Levy
Congessman Levy
Marc Macaulay
Police Spokesman
Brian Markinson
Vic Nash
Tom McCarthy
Negotiator
Larry John Meyers
Murray Gordon
Edwina Moore
WMIA Co-Anchor
Charles Noland
Focus Group Member
Norman Parker
Mark Lindler
Dedee Pfeiffer
Luanna Atwater
James Rebhorn
John Merino
Elizabeth Ruscio
Miami Reporter
Miguel Sandoval
Dan Duarte
Jack Shearer
Prison Expert
Heidi Swedberg
Sheila
Cynthia Szigeti
98 Year Old Twin
Rick Warner
Spokesman
Michael Shamus Wiles
WFIL Cameraman
Noble Willingham
Buford Sells
Fern Buchner
WMIA Makeup Woman
Scott Bryce
Rob Sullivan
Ginny Graham
Focus Group Member
Andy Prosky
Cord Otavio
Miguel P�rez
WMIA Floor Manager
Joanna Sanchez
Ileana
Daniel Zacapa

Critic Reviews for Up Close & Personal

All Critics (47) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (10) | Rotten (23) | DVD (2)

This is one of those untaxing time-killers where you spend a lot of time pondering which of its actress's changing hairstyles you like best.

January 1, 2000 Comment

Mike Clark

USA Today

Top Critic

Glitz! Glamour! Love! TV news ethics?

December 15, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media

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Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

A perfectly respectable effort, but with all the talent involved it could have been better.

January 23, 2006 Comment

Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

Bland TV expose loosely based on the life of Jessica Savitch

April 29, 2005 Comment

Daniel Eagan

Film Journal International

Final proof that "based on actual events" means absolutely nothing.

April 17, 2005 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

There is no real sexual tension between [Pfeiffer and Redford] from the get-go, so when they finally do get together, it feels forced, ungenuine.

December 28, 2004 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

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Audience Reviews for Up Close & Personal

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Pfeiffer stars as Tally aka Sally who is a young and naive journalist who desperately wants to become a news anchor & enlists the help of a news director, Warren Justice (Robert Redford), to help Tally accomplish her dreams. With a beautiful and tragic story of true love and Celine Dion's Because You Love Me, this

July 8, 2011

Cassie Hill

Super Reviewer

Old-fashioned Hollywood movies are hard to come by these days, and that is what makes this big-screen love story such a treasure. Writer Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, who based the screenplay on Alanna Nash's biography of ill-fated TV newswoman have gone with a largely fictional tale, and this works very much in the film's favour.

April 29, 2007

Dean McKenna

Super Reviewer

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