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Brian De Palma's homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's classic art movie Blow-Up (1966) blends suspense and political paranoia when a Philadelphia soundman inadvertently records a murder. Former police technician Jack Terri (John Travolta) makes his living doing sound for slasher flicks. While ...more
MPAA Rating: R | Year: 1981 | Running Time: 107 minutes
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Blow Out is Brian DePalma's glossy send-up of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s art-house classic Blow-Up. In Blow-Up, a London fashion photographer unwittingly shoots footage of a murder plot; in Blow Out, a movie sound technician records a killing that's part of a wide-ranging political conspiracy. The intricate plot is typical of DePalma and has unmistakable parallels with Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974), also a version of Blow-Up. The cast includes John Travolta in his first ...more
- John Travolta - Jack
- Nancy Allen - Sally
- John Lithgow - Burke
- Dennis Franz - Manny Karp
- Peter Boyden - Sam
- Dean Bennett - Campus Guard
- Tim Choate - Sailor
- Maurice Copeland - Jack Manners
- Terrence Currier - Lawrence Henry
- Cindy Manion - Dancing Coed
- Robin Sherwood - Screamer
- Bud Seese - Corrupt Captain
- David Roberts - Anchorman
- J. Patrick McNamara - Nelson
- Brian De Palma - Director
- Fred Caruso - Executive Producer
- George Litto - Producer
- Brian De Palma - Screenwriter
- Ann Roth - Costume Designer
- Vicki Sanchez - Costume Designer
- Joe Napolitano - First Assistant Director
- Paul Hirsch - Editor
- Pino Donaggio - Composer (Music Score)
- Paul Sylbert - Production Designer
- Vilmos Zsigmond - Cinematographer
- Fred Caruso - Production Manager
- Jeannine Oppewall - Set Designer
- Jim Tannenbaum - Sound Mixer
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