Up Close & Personal

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Summary: Perfect
Review: It's a wonderful film.Romantic and real at the same time.I saw it three times and I am sure I will see it again.Michelle is gorgeous and brilliant and Robert is just great , the best as usual. It's a perfect movie but I did not like the end.

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Summary: Really tried to like it, but the film is too silly to enjoy
Review: Michelle Pfeiffer is far too old for her role and since she is not the most talented actress (although she was great in What Lies Beneath, where her limited abilities were well suited), she is very awkward in the part. Silly and ditzy at first, she willingly falls under the influence of Robert Redford's character, a controlling sexist who bitterly dreams of better days when journalism was about telling the facts rather than making up stories or ridiculing citizens. I liked Redford's character to some degree, only the sexist and belligerant portions were hard to stomach. He needed a strong woman to tell him off, at least, or to set him right. Pfeiffer's character doesn't provide this. She becomes Redford's protege, and we have a Pygmalion plot which is sure to appeal to women who want to be sheltered and guided by a father-figure who later takes them to bed. Kind of gross idea. There are a lot of childish antics from Pfeiffer's character, Tally, in her pursuit of friendship and later sex with Redford's Warren Justice (his character's name sounds like he should be on the Supreme Court, doesn't it?). Finally, Pfeiffer gets what she wants, and the romantic love scene pretty much consists of Redford ungraciously throwing her against a wall (ouch!) and finally, being nice and kissing the small of her back. Hmm. Is this the high romance we expect from Redford? Well, no, but it suits his character, who is not a particularly likeable guy. Following this, there are a lot of silly professional antics. Warren Justice suffers from an attitude problem, expecting to be revered rather than treated like an ordinary, unemployed guy. Tally has a big scene at some prison riot which sends a message to the audience that prisons should be reformed (ho, hum, not another Redford liberal political message, embedded in a movie that's suppose to be entertaining, even though this one is not). Warren Justice, or rather Redford, manages to get himself rescued from this film in a terminal way, removing any possibility for a sequel even though the original film is so bad that sequels are far from anyone's mind. The film ends awkwardly, with Tally or Michelle on stage talking about how wonderful Redford is and a huge photograph of Redford, with his classic smile, looming behind her. It looks like war of the movie star egos, and not a decent film about love, journalism, ethics, or adventure. There are a lot of awkward, nonsensical one-liners in this film too. They are thrown out as little romantic bits -- Redford wants to be with Pfeiffer so much that it hurts. One day together is more than they deserve. That sort of thing. Poor acting, poor directing, poor script -- very poor story idea. Granted there are women who are like Pfeiffer's character, helpless and dependent and silly and barely educated. They do turn to men to help them, rather than get some of the generously available financial aid and go to college, during the day or at night, to work hard and make something out of themselves. And there are plenty of men like Redford's character who like women that they can view as being less than they are, as being inferior. I don't think we needed a film about this, nor did Redford need to belittle his reputation this way. Honestly, if you can sit through this film twice, or even once (I kept getting up to clean the apartment, which is a sign of how bad a film is if I cannot sit still and would rather -- horrors -- vacuum and dust), you have more stamina than me. I disliked this film, but I hope you manage to find something to like in it. Films should be entertaining. Maybe this one has some merit buried in it?

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Summary: Did I miss the punchline here?
Review: Somewhat predictable love story of two journalists in the news business who must examine their lives, both personally and professionally, and come to terms with how to work in the new world of network news. The romance that ultimately develops between them however is pretty standard Hollywod fare and has been done better in other films.

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Summary: Did I miss the punchline here?
Review: Somewhat predictable love story of two journalists in the news business who must examine their lives, both personally and professionally, and come to terms with how to work in the new world of network news. The romance that ultimately develops between them however is pretty standard Hollywod fare and has been done better in other films.

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Summary: Not worth seeing; not worth filming
Review: There was a good story in this film, but unfortunately it nearly disappeared under the pygmalion/romance. Redford's character is tough and determined, but also a man on the way down, because his commitment to truth and journalism is no longer in vogue. News has gone from fact-finding to entertainment and even censorship. To follow his story would have been magnificent, but they introduced a ditsy, male-dependent blonde (Pfieffer, proving how poorly she can act) and an absurd story-line of a mature man who should know better wanting a romance with an aggressive but altogether mindless chick. Too much Tally Atwater and her adventures in the disneyland of modern journalism, too little Warren Justice (strange name) and his struggles for an ethical standard that we see fading from all sectors of our culture. This picture had something to say but got totally lost. Redford does his best with a poor script and disinterested direction. But even his strong presence and bold presentation cannot make this film worth viewing.

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Summary: emotional
Review: This is one of the first movies I can say that I made me cry at the end that I love. Redford and Pfeiffer are AWESOME and it had all the things a movie must have; action, romance, and humor.

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Summary: emotional
Review: This is one of the first movies I can say that I made me cry at the end that I love. Redford and Pfeiffer are AWESOME and it had all the things a movie must have; action, romance, and humor.

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Summary: Best movie I've ever seen
Review: This movie has it all. It will have you in tears on second and laughing the next. Definately a movie that you will not expect the things that happen, to happen.

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Summary: five stars because i can't give it six!
Review: This movie has two blonde people in it: Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Pfeiffer, I think, was in Grease 2. The "chemistry" redefines the Periodic Table of the Elements: Redford is gold, Pfeiffer is platinum (blonde). I didn't see it, I just wanted to get my name posted.

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Summary: Get out your suspension of disbelief!
Review: This movie was interesting enough to keep me watching to the end but I was disappointed. Maybe I missed the point, but it seemed to me that almost nothing about this movie was real. Robert Redford's character wore clothes and had furniture that seemed mostly lifted from the Sundance Catalog. Michelle Pfeiffer's character never seemed to be doing any research but rather staying late at work to play solitaire on her computer. And we later are expected to believe that she gets up from her wedding bed to work at her laptop on a news story. I found it a sad reflection on Hollywood's take on American values and an insult to the viewer's intelligence.