Up close & personal [videorecording] / Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Cinergi Pictures Entertainment ; an Avnet/Kerner production ; a Jon Avnet film ; producers, Jon Avnet, David Nicksay, Jordan Kerner ; director, Jon Avnet.
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FilmPublisher number: 17634 | Touchstone Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English Publication details: [United States] : Touchstone Home Video ; [Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video, 1996]Description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 078881687X
- 9780788816871
- Up close and personal
- Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Debra Neil-Fisher ; production designer, Jeremy Conway ; director of photography, Karl Walter Lindenlaub ; executive producers, Ed Hookstratten, John Foreman ; writers, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne ; producers, Jon Avnet, David Nicksay, Jordan Kerner ; director, Jon Avnet.
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Main Library | DVD | DRAMA Up close | Available | 33111007416866 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. It's based loosely on the real-life story of newscaster Jessica Savitch. Sally Atwater (Michelle Pfieffer) gets a job at a Miami TV station based on a demo tape from her hometown of Reno, Nevada. The station's news director is Warren Justice (Robert Redford), a former high-profile Washington newsman whose career has suffered from his insistence on integrity. He makes Sally his gofer and criticizes her clothes and appearance while she begs him for a chance to go on-air. She becomes the station's weathercaster and Warren gives her the stage name of Tally. With Warren's constant advice, she breaks into news reporting and her star rises quickly as the two become romantically involved. She takes a better job in Philadelphia, with Warren's blessing, and there she soon eclipses the anchorwoman Marcia McGrath (Stockard Channing). From there, Tally's career continues to flourish, while her relationship with Warren takes some strange twists and turns. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
Special features: Theatrical trailer.
Suggested by the book "Golden girl" by Alanna Nash.
Music, Thomas Newman ; editor, Debra Neil-Fisher ; production designer, Jeremy Conway ; director of photography, Karl Walter Lindenlaub ; executive producers, Ed Hookstratten, John Foreman ; writers, Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne ; producers, Jon Avnet, David Nicksay, Jordan Kerner ; director, Jon Avnet.
Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan, Glenn Plummer, James Rebhorn.
Originally released as motion picture.
When aspiring news reporter Tally Atwater tries to break into television, only veteran newsman Warren Justice will give her a shot. In time, he teaches her everything she knows about news and she teaches him how to love again. But with her rise from local TV weather girl to network anchor, Tally and Warren must balance the dream of success with their desire for each other.
Rated PG-13.
DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1.
English or French language tracks ; Closed captioned.