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The Passenger
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PG,2hrs 6min
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1975
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Synopsis: The mutual admiration between actor Jack Nicholson and director Michelangelo Antonioni resulted in the psychological drama The Passenger. Nicholson plays David Locke, a disillusioned American reporter who is sent on a grueling mission to North Africa. When he stumbles across the body of a dead man, Locke, long desirous of starting life over again, assumes the corpse's identity. He soon discovers that the man he's pretending to be is involved in gun running on behalf of a terrorist group. Making the ... Full Synopsis
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The Passenger is a late Antonioni film, made only about a decade after his most influential works had been completed. After the success of Blow-Up (1966), Antonioni was free to write his own ticket, but the result was the disastrous Zabriskie Point (1970), which despite some interesting sequences (particularly the last reel, depicting a sprawling ranch house in the desert exploding repeatedly in slow ... Full Review
Featured Cast
David Locke
Rachel Locke
Martin Knight
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