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Blow Out

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Blow Out
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R,1hr 47min
Genre:
Action
Released:
January 1, 1981
Director:
Brian De Palma
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow  ...more
Synopsis: Brian De Palma's homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic art movie Blow-Up (1966) blends suspense and political paranoia when a Philadelphia soundman inadvertently records a murder. Former police technician Jack Terri (John Travolta) makes his living doing sound for slasher flicks. While recording new outdoor effects one night, Jack witnesses a couple's car careen off a bridge into a river, but he can save only the female occupant, Sally (Nancy Allen). Jack begins to suspect something when he ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
Blow Out is Brian DePalma's glossy send-up of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s art-house classic Blow-Up. In Blow-Up, a London fashion photographer unwittingly shoots footage of a murder plot; in Blow Out, a movie sound technician records a killing that's part of a wide-ranging political conspiracy. The intricate plot is typical of DePalma and has unmistakable parallels with Francis Ford Coppola's The ... Full Review
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John Travolta
Jack
Nancy Allen
Sally
John Lithgow
Burke
Dennis Franz
Manny Karp
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