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      Up Close & Personal

      1996, Romance, 2h 4m

      37 Reviews 10,000+ Ratings

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      Up Close & Personal wastes its superstar leads and compelling fact-inspired story on a treacly romance bereft of onscreen chemistry. Read critic reviews

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      Movie Info

      Warren Justice (Robert Redford), a producer for a Miami news program, watches an audition tape from a young Nevada woman named Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) and decides to hire her. Under Warren's mentorship, Sally rises from gofer to on-air personality, and eventually gets a job in Philadelphia, a more prestigious market. There, she tussles with veteran anchorperson Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing) and lands a story that catapults her to national prominence.

      • Rating: PG-13

      • Genre: Romance

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Jon Avnet

      • Producer: Jon Avnet, David Nicksay, Jordan Kerner

      • Writer: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

      • Release Date (Streaming):

      • Box Office (Gross USA): $51.1M

      • Runtime:

      • Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures

      • Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Avnet/Kerner Productions, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment

      • Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

      Cast & Crew

      Robert Redford
      Michelle Pfeiffer
      Stockard Channing
      Joe Mantegna
      Kate Nelligan
      Glenn Plummer
      James Rebhorn
      Scott Bryce
      Raymond Cruz
      DeDee Pfeiffer
      Jon Avnet
      Jon Avnet
      Joan Didion
      Thomas Newman
      Jeremy Conway

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      • Oct 01, 2013

        A little long. The ending was very sad.

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      • Jul 08, 2011

        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 movie is simply wonderful and incredibly touching and holds a special place in my heart.

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      • Oct 27, 2009

        <a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i30.tinypic.com/hs3ss6.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> I simply love Robert Redford in every movie he was in.Up close and personal was just a nice romance drama in the broadcast world.There were so many good things about this movie and there were some flaws too.Robert and Michelle had great chemistry and I liked the way he looked at her, the things he said to her, what he did for her to help her become what she wanted to be. So nice and romantic. Overall the movie was just okay.

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      • May 11, 2009

        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 Redford), a former high-profile Washington newsman whose career has suffered from his insistence on integrity. He makes Sally his gofer and criticizes her clothes and appearance while she begs him for a chance to go on-air. She becomes the station's weathercaster and Warren gives her the stage name of Tally. With Warren's constant advice, she breaks into news reporting and her star rises quickly as the two become romantically involved. She takes a better job in Philadelphia, with Warren's blessing, and there she soon eclipses the anchorwoman Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing). From there, Tally's career continues to flourish, while her relationship with Warren takes some strange twists and turns.

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