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Is it worse as a love story or as a drama about the sorry state of television news? The answer: It's a tie.
Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune
Up Close & Personal
Every day we have, is one more than we deserve.
1996 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Jon Avnet
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Up Close & Personal
Overview
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...
Director and cast
- Jon Avnet Director
- Robert Redford as Warren Justice
- Michelle Pfeiffer as Tally Atwater
- Stockard Channing as Marcia McGrath
- Joe Mantegna as Bucky Terranova
- Kate Nelligan as Joanna Kennelly
- Glenn Plummer as Ned Jackson
- James Rebhorn as John Merino
- Scott Bryce as Rob Sullivan
- Raymond Cruz as Fernando Buttanda
- Dedee Pfeiffer as Luanne Atwater
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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31%
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This is one of those untaxing time-killers where you spend a lot of time pondering which of its actress's changing hairstyles you like best.
Mike Clark, USA Today
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