You'd never take her for a call girl. You'd never take him for a cop.
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
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- John Chardon TMDB · Nov 20139/10
Once Bree breezes into Klute’s life, things will never be the same. Klute is directed by Alan J. Pakula and written by Andy and Dave Lewis. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. Music is by Michael Small and cinematography by Gordon Willis. When businessman Tom Gruneman (Robert Milli) mysteriously disappears, private detective John Klute (Sutherland) is hired to find out what happened. Travelling to New York, Klute follows a lead to high class prostitute Bree Daniels (Fonda), who is known to have had much correspondence with Gruneman. An uneasy relationship forms between Klute and Daniels, but when it becomes apparent that she is being stalked by someone sinister, Klute gets in far deeper than he ever could have imagined. Alan J. Pakula, a purveyor of 1970s paranoia infused cinema, lends his astute sense of screw tightening to make Klute a taut and menacing neo-noir. He gives us a New York cloaked in urban claustrophobia, a place populated with lost souls, of emotionally stunted abusers, and sexually charged murders. Right in the middle are John and Bree, two people in search of meaning and direction in life, brought together by way of a miserable
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Cast
- Jane FondaBree Daniels
- Donald SutherlandJohn Klute
- Charles CioffiPeter Cable
- Roy ScheiderFrank Ligourin
- Dorothy TristanArlyn Page
- Rita GamTrina
- Vivian NathanPsychiatrist
- Nathan GeorgeTrask
- Morris StrassbergMr. Goldfarb
- Barry SniderBerger
Crew
- Alan J. PakulaDirector
- Andy LewisWriter
- David E. LewisWriter
- Gordon WillisDirector of Photography
- Michael SmallOriginal Music Composer
- Carl LernerEditor
- Alan J. PakulaProducer
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