Blow Out (1981)

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1h 48m
Running Time

July 24, 1981
Release Date

Blow Out (1981)

4
/ 10
1 User Ratings
1h 48m
Running Time

July 24, 1981
Release Date

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Plot.

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

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Cast & Crew.

Claire Carter

Claire Carter

Anchorwoman

Maurice Copeland

Maurice Copeland

Jack Manners

John Hoffmeister

John Hoffmeister

Governor McRyan

Thomas J. McCarthy

Thomas J. McCarthy

Policeman at Hospital

Reginald M. Wallace

Reginald M. Wallace

Policeman at Hospital

Robert L. Penrose

Robert L. Penrose

Hospital Administrator

Larry Woody

Larry Woody

Doctor

Dick McGarvin

Dick McGarvin

TV Newscaster

Michael Borghese

Michael Borghese

Newsdealer

Rossana Fichera

Rossana Fichera

Receptionist

James Jeter

James Jeter

Film Lab Man

Luddy Tramontana

Luddy Tramontana

Freddie Corso

Sid Doherty

Sid Doherty

Cop in Car

Milt Fields

Milt Fields

Mobster

Bud Seese

Bud Seese

Corrupt Captain

Maureen Sullivan

Maureen Sullivan

First Murder Victim

Details.

Release Date
July 24, 1981

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 48m

Content Rating
R

Budget
$18,000,000

Box Office
$12,000,000

Filming Locations
Philadelphia, United States

Genres

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This Movie Is About.

philadelphia
audio tape
hitman
presidential election
yell
politics
faithlessness
conspiracy
tape recorder
car accident
audio recording
sound effect
neo-noir
whodunit
noise
paranoia
grand

Wiki.

Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir mystery thriller film written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, unintentionally captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential hopeful. Nancy Allen stars as Sally Bedina, a young woman involved in the crime. The supporting cast includes John Lithgow and Dennis Franz. The film's tagline in advertisements was, "Murder has a sound all of its own".

Directly based on Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blowup, the film replaces the medium of photography with one of audio recording. The concept of Blow Out came to De Palma while he was working on the thriller Dressed to Kill (1980). The film was shot in the late autumn and winter of 1980 in various Philadelphia locations on a budget of $18 million.

Blow Out opened to very little audience interest at the time of release despite receiving a mostly positive critical reception. The lead performances by Travolta and Allen, the direction by De Palma and the visual style were cited as the strongest points of the film. Critics also recognised the stylistic and narrative connection to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, whom De Palma admires, and giallo films. Over the years since its initial theatrical release, it has developed status as a cult film and received a home media release by the Criterion Collection, a company which specializes in "important classic and contemporary film," which re-ignited public interest in the film. Quentin Tarantino praises De Palma as the "greatest director of his generation" and cites Blow Out as one of his three favorite films that he would take to a desert island.

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