Klute
Klute is a 1971 crime thriller film directed and produced by Alan J. Pakula, written by Andy and Dave Lewis, and starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi and Roy Scheider. It tells the story of a high priced prostitute who assists a detective in solving a missing persons case.
The film begins with the disappearance of Pennsylvania executive Tom Gruneman played by Robert Milli. The police reveal that an obscene letter was found in Grunemans office, addressed to a prostitute in New York City named Bree Daniels Jane Fonda, who had received several similar letters from him. After six months of fruitless police work, Peter Cable Charles Cioffi, an executive at Grunemans company, hires family friend and detective John Klute Donald Sutherland to investigate Grunemans disappearance.Klute rents an apartment in the basement of Daniels building, taps her phone, and follows her as she turns tricks. Daniels appears to be liberated by the freedom of freelancing as a call girl, but in a series of visits to her psychiatrist, she reveals the emptiness of her life and that she wants to quit. Klute asks Daniels to answer some of his questions, but she refuses. He approaches her again, revealing that he has been watching her. She does not recall Gruneman. She reveals that she was beaten by one of her johns two years earlier, but after seeing a photo of Gruneman, she says she cannot say for sure. ........
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