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Up Close & Personal DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Touchstone Home Video :: Released: 1999-09-14

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Up Close & Personal Summary Hollywood Favorites Robert Redford (spy Game) And Michelle Pfeiffer (i Am Sam) Sizzle Together In This Acclaimed Story Of Heated Passion And Burning Ambition! When Aspiring News Reporter Tally Atwater (pfeiffer) Tries To Break Into Television, Only Veteran Newsman Warren Justice (redford) Will Give Her A Shot. In Time, He Teaches Her Everything She Knows About News ... And She Teaches Him How To Love Again! But With Her Rise From Local Tv Weather Girl To Network Anchor, Tally And Warren Must Balance The Dream Of Success ... With Their Desire For Each Other. Also Featuring Celine Dion's #1 Hit Single "because You Loved Me" -- You'll Find This Entertaining Motion Picture An Absolute Must-see!

Here's a classic Hollywood star vehicle. Up Close and Personal--the story of Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer), an inexperienced but ambitious TV news personality, and her well-weathered journalistic mentor, Warren Justice (Robert Redford)--was carefully tailored to fit its stars. What began as a screenplay based on the biography of troubled TV anchorwoman Jessica Savitch (Golden Girl, by Alanna Nash) took more than eight years to reach the screen, written and rewritten, on and off, over the years by husband-and-wife team John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, mainly because they needed the work to qualify for the splendid Writers' Guild health-insurance plan. Although the considerable charisma of Pfeiffer and Redford go a long way, in many respects Nash's original nonfiction book (and even Dunne's peculiarly disingenuous "insider" account of the writing of the screenplay, Monster: Living Off the Big Screen) offers tales more compelling than the one that eventually made it to the screen. But, all things considered, that's a little like comparing apples and oranges, since the slick Up Close and Personal bears about as much resemblance to its gritty original source material as...well, an apple does to an orange. Critic Roger Ebert, who awarded the movie three stars, nevertheless said he was reminded of the time producer Samuel Goldwyn commissioned a screenplay about the Lindbergh kidnapping. Only, to quote Goldwyn, "it can't be about kidnapping, which is against the Code. For legal reasons, we have to change the name from Lindbergh. And the kid's father shouldn't fly." Read the book, see the movie, read the book about writing the movie. Anyone interested in how movies are made will learn an entertaining lesson about the studio system by devouring all three. --Jim Emerson

Up Close & Personal DVD Techincal Details Cast: Robert Redford, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 124 mins
UPC: 717951003447
Binding: DVD
Studio: Touchstone Home Video
Release Date: 1999-09-14
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown - Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language - Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Original Language - Dolby Digital 5.1),