Up Close & Personal

"Every day we have, is one more than we deserve."

1996 1h 59m EN

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6.3

MID

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32%

ROTTEN

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6.1

IMDB

★6.3TMDB · 248🥫32%Rotten Tomatoes★6.1IMDB · 15,545

DramaRomance

Synopsis

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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...

“Every day we have, is one more than we deserve.”

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Cast

Robert Redford
Warren Justice
Michelle Pfeiffer
Tally Atwater
Stockard Channing
Marcia McGrath
Joe Mantegna
Bucky Terranova
Kate Nelligan
Joanna Kennelly
Glenn Plummer
Ned Jackson
James Rebhorn
John Merino
Scott Bryce
Rob Sullivan

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jon Avnet
Writers: Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Mid-budget at $60M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.

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ERA

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30 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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CAST

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212+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jon Avnet, shot by Karl Walter Lindenlaub. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Thomas Newman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Debra Neil-Fisher shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer and Stockard Channing carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Every day we have, is one more than we deserve.".

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The take

Jon Avnet directs. Karl Walter Lindenlaub behind the camera. Thomas Newman scores. Debra Neil-Fisher cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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1Mid-budget at $60M — the now-extinct middle tier of Hollywood.
230 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3212+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Jon Avnet, shot by Karl Walter Lindenlaub. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Thomas Newman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Debra Neil-Fisher shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Robert Redford and Michelle Pfeiffer and Stockard Channing carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Every day we have, is one more than we deserve.".
9IMDB entry: tt0118055 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 13 themes, including "career", "miami, florida", "affectation", "reporter".