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Movie

Up Close & Personal

1996PG-131h 59m6.3 / 10

Passion Brought Them Together... Only Success Could Tear Them Apart!

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...

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Synopsis

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...

More about Up Close & Personal

Cast

Robert RedfordWarren Justice
Michelle PfeifferTally Atwater
Stockard ChanningMarcia McGrath
Joe MantegnaBucky Terranova
Kate NelliganJoanna Kennelly
Glenn PlummerNed Jackson
James RebhornJohn Merino
Scott BryceRob Sullivan

Credits

Directed by
Jon Avnet
Written by
Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne

Production details

Status
Released
Original language
English
Budget
$60M
Box office
$100.7M

Production

  • Cinergi PicturesUnited States
  • The Avnet/Kerner CompanyUnited States

Themes

absurdadmiringadoringaffectationamusedcandidcareerinformative