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Up Close & Personal

Certificate 15

running time 2hr 4 mins

Director Jon Avnet

Right lets get this established from the start - this film is one of those sloppy Hollywood productions that all those smarmy, overpaid executives label `Cash Machine'. A large (very large) number of people go & spend lots of money to watch this over-indulgent shite.Why?

Still interested? Oh dear... well here's the plot. Michelle Pfieffer plays country girl Sallyanne Atwater, who is desperate to work as a newscaster. She blags her way into a Miami regional news station run by Warren Justice (played by Robert Redford).They hate each other, as she thinks she's going to the top but ends up making his coffee.

Eventually they grow on each other as she is taught the business by him (can you guess what it is yet?). In the unbearably cliched Hollywood tradition it's an ending-by-numbers affair sa they fall in love,she works her way up & they marry. The pair go to prison riots & crises galore before she lands the top job,blah,blah,blah...

If you've got any sense then you'll know what to do, but then again maybe you're into this kind of trash...
Julian Harrison-Jones