Up Close & Personal

"Passion Brought Them Together... Only Success Could Tear Them Apart!"

Mar 1 1996 PG-13 2h 4m
Drama, Romance

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...

Plot

This is a telling of the Jessica Savitch story, the newswoman who, in the 1970s, became the "First Woman Anchor". Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) is taken under the wing of Warren Justice (Robert Redford) in a Miami newsroom and becomes a news star on television. Despite her love for Warren, she takes the big chance and moves on to Philadelphia, where he follows to rescue her faltering career at the cost of his own - as she rises, he falls.

Written by

Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Alanna Nash

Directed by

Jon Avnet

Cast

Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Touchstone Pictures, Cinergi Pictures Entertainment

Languages

English

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 3 nominations total

Trailers
Up Close & Personal - 1996 MOVIE TRAILER Michelle Pfeiffer Robert Redford
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