Blow Out
Murder has a sound all of its own.
Murder has a sound all of its own.
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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1981
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While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
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Rated:
R
Runtime:
108 min
Release date:
24 Jul 1981
Country:
US
Languages:
English
Budget:
$18,000,000
Revenue:
$12,000,000
Awards:
2 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Perfectly contrasts movies that reveal the truth against those which avoid it - a blood-drenched yet stake-free slasher vs. the far more insidious horrors of all-American living.
– William Goss,
Film.com,
30 Apr 2011
fresh:
This 1981 release is one of Brian De Palma's more interesting and better-made thrillers, though it's even more abjectly derivative than his Hitchcock imitations.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
27 Mar 2009
rotten:
With attractive leads and a stylish flair for suspense, De Palma misses sustaining involvement by his distracting allusions to prior films.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
It's a great movie.
– Pauline Kael,
New Yorker,
28 May 2008
fresh:
A movie which continues [De Palma] practice of making cross-references to other movies, other directors, and actual historical events, and which nevertheless is his best and most original work.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004