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Blow Out (1981)
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Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 25
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save the female passenger from drowning. Because the other passenger... While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save the female passenger from drowning. Because the other passenger was a presidential candidate, Jack suspects that the "accident" was a political murder. Afterwards, Jack falls in love with Sally, the woman he rescued, and learns that she's been in cahoots with Manny, a sleazy photographer who's operating a blackmail scheme. As part of their scam, Manny photographs Sally with important men in what appear to be compromising situations. Jack starts to wonder whether he's being paranoid or whether things are not quite what they seem. Then the assassin turns his attention to Jack and Sally, and Jack has to use every special effects trick in the book to keep them both alive. [More]
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
Starring: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, John McMartin
Director: Brian De Palma
Director: Brian De Palma
Producer: George Litto
Composer: Pino Donaggio
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Reviews for Blow Out
Original for sure story of Travolta's movie sound effects guy recording a real murder.
Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare.
the filmmakers seem more concerned with their art or their in-jokes than with satisfying an audience
A well-crafted Hitchcockian-style thriller with De Palma again in top form. It's a mystery why this fizzled at the box office in the summer of 1981.
Of all De Palma's movies, Blow Out is the one I most like to see over and over.
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