Up Close & Personal

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Up Close & Personal

PG-13,

1996,

2h 4m,

Romance

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33%

36 Reviews

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66%

10,000+ Ratings

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33%

Tomatometer

36 Reviews

66%

Popcornmeter

10,000+ Ratings

Warren Justice (Robert Redford), a producer for a Miami news program, watches an audition tape from a young Nevada woman named Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) and decides to hire her. Under Warren's mentorship, Sally rises from gofer to on-air personality, and eventually gets a job in Philadelphia, a more prestigious market. There, she tussles with veteran anchorperson Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing) and lands a story that catapults her to national prominence.

Critics Consensus

Up Close & Personal wastes its superstar leads and compelling fact-inspired story on a treacly romance bereft of onscreen chemistry.

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David Ansen

Newsweek

Feb 23, 2018

What Up Close and Personal" is really about is the chemical reaction set off between Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford. In a love story, if your two stars don't click, all is lost. When they do--as they do here--nothing else really matters.

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Gene Siskel

Chicago Tribune

Jan 16, 2013

1/4

Is it worse as a love story or as a drama about the sorry state of television news? The answer: It's a tie.

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Mike Clark

USA Today

Jan 1, 2000

2.5/4

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.

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Wesley Lovell

Cinema Sight

Dec 4, 2022

3/4

It is an engaging, almost endearing, film with plenty of issues, but none of those problems generate any kind of animus, just a vague sense of disappointment that it wasn’t ever so slightly better.

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Armond White

National Review

Dec 4, 2020

Up Close and Personal isn't even a particularly good movie, but it's more revealing than most other films about the degradation of what used to be called "the press."

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Charles Cassady

Common Sense Media

Dec 15, 2010

2/5

Glitz! Glamour! Love! TV news ethics?

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Jon Avnet

Director

Robert Redford

Warren Justice

Michelle Pfeiffer

Sally

Stockard Channing

Marcia McGrath

Joe Mantegna

Bucky Terranova

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Synopsis

Warren Justice (Robert Redford), a producer for a Miami news program, watches an audition tape from a young Nevada woman named Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) and decides to hire her. Under Warren's mentorship, Sally rises from gofer to on-air personality, and eventually gets a job in Philadelphia, a more prestigious market. There, she tussles with veteran anchorperson Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing) and lands a story that catapults her to national prominence.

Director: Jon Avnet
Producer: Jon Avnet, David Nicksay, Jordan Kerner
Screenwriter: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures
Production Co: Touchstone Pictures, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Avnet/Kerner Productions
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 1, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $51.1M
Runtime: 2h 4m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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