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| Up Close & Personal | 
 enlarge | Director: Jon Avnet
Actors: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 7054
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 124
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.7 x 0.6
MPN: DISD17634D
ISBN: 078881687X
UPC: 717951003447
EAN: 9786305428039
ASIN: 6305428034
Theatrical Release Date: March 1, 1996
Release Date: September 14, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Complete with original disc(s), artwork, and case. In stock and ships right now!
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 One of the BEST 'chick flicks' of all time! June 14, 2007
Most women look for the best chick flick ever! I know I've found it!!! This movie will have you going through the tissues by the box fulls, so you better stock up!!!!
Robert Redford-Still Handsome At 60 January 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this film. Not only does Robert Redford got the looks, but he's also got the talent. He's starred in numerous classics, like The Way We Were and The Natural.
Tally starts as a naive worker at Channel 9, and Warren keeps her around, but not giving her what she was hoping for. Eventually she does grow and mature, while also snagging the anchor position and Warren himself. Surprise ending that will have you leaving the room...
Another Redford recommendation is The Horse Whisperer, which is also a love story and costars a young Scarlett Johansen.
I second that emotion, Jake! August 11, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have to "second that emotion" over Jake's reveiw! He really is a Class A guy, a real stand up reviewer, when it comes to these things, you catch my drift?
This movie rocked, and I don't care what those "smarmy" reviewers said! Anyway, they suck!
MC White said: Check it out!
Pretty much the best movie August 11, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I must say I'm shocked this film was overlooked when it came to the big awards.
Why do the Oscar voters hate love so much? Is it because they're all shallow phonies out of touch with real human emotion? I think we all know the answer to those questions, right?
Heck, I don't go around calling people names and feeling good about it. But when a film of this caliber is called "drivel" by one critic and "horse manure" by another. It sort of gets my goat, you see where I'm going with this?
And another thing, just because something has a happy ending doesn't mean it's not an artistic success, understood? I could write all day about how real art needs to reflect life and be honest about the miserableness of life, but who wants to read realistic views like that, you follow?
Anyway, Redford really phones in a great performance and Michelle P. is radiant as a TV reporter with mad skills and a questionable attitude.
Redford Does it Again July 28, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Robert Redford starred in one of the undisputed great romance films of all time, The Way We Were. Up Close and Personal takes many aspects of this film plus many other great romance classics, like Pygmalion and A Star is Born.
Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an ambitious woman who wants to break into the nightly news game. She fakes an audition tape and sends it every news department. She gets a bite from a small station in Miami. Channel 9 news is headed by veteran Warren Justice (Redford). He immediately sees through Sally's disguise but he sees something in her.
Sally keeps on trying and absorbing everything about the news. And one day, the weatherman walks off and Warren puts Sally on (but changes her name to Tally.) Tally is an unmitigated flop but according to Warren "the camera eats her up." Warren takes her under his wing and turns her into a first rate journalist. Eventually, she becomes an anchor.
During a sweeps story at a penitentiary, Tally gets caught up in a prison revolt. But this gives her a unique opportunity, she is the only reporter on the inside. Her coverage goes national and she becomes a media sensation. It's not long before the networks come knocking on her door but Warren has escaped that rat race and is not interested in returning.
With Tally a star, Warren decides that it is time to get back into the game but on his own terms.
This is the return of Redford, the romantic actor. He proves two decades later he still has it. Pfeiffer, like her character, was coming still coming up and this helped prove she could handle a romantic lead. This film also features two great supporting performances from Stockard Channing and Kate Nelligan as two of Warren's exes.
This is a great date film or to watch after a break-up. And it has the only great Celine Dion song - Because You Love Me.
DVD EXTRAS: NONE
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