Up Close & Personal

Up Close amp Personal is a 1996 American romantic drama film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Robert Redford as a news director and Michelle Pfeiffer as his protege, with Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna and Kate Nelligan in supporting roles.

Sally Tally Atwater Michelle Pfeiffer is an ambitious, aspiring news reporter, who is hired by Miami local news director Warren Justice Robert Redford when she sends in a homemade audition tape. He carefully guides her career to new heights, all the while becoming increasingly attracted to her. Tally soon rises through the ranks of network news to become successful, while Warrens oncestellar career sinks into mediocrity. Furthermore, Tallys ascension takes her away from Warren when she is forced to relocate to Philadelphia. Tally struggles at her new post, in no small part due to the hostility of veteran reporter Marcia McGrath Stockard Channing, who jealously protects her position as the top reporter. Warren turns up to inspire Tally, and the two partners begin a new career together. However, on a routine assignment in a Philadelphia prison, Tally and her cameraman are taken hostage in a prison riot and forced to endure hours of intense violence. Tally covers the groundbreaking story from within the walls of the collapsing prison as Warren looks on from outside, guiding her through her first national broadcast. This incredible act of bravery leads to Tallys eagerly anticipated advancement to a national network newscaster position and the continuation of the dynamic duos rise to fame but shortly after, disaster strikes when Warren is killed during an assignment.In the spring of 1988, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion began writing the script for a film entitled Golden Girl, based on Alanna Nashs biography of Jessica Savitch. When the film was finally released in 1996, eight years later, it was known as Up Close amp Personal and none of the more controversial details of Savitchs private life remained ........

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