Up Close & Personal
– Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothin..
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
01 Mar 1996
English
Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Parents are urged to be cautious. Some material may be inappropriate for pre-teenagers.
Jon Avnet
Joan Didion, John Gregory Dunne, Alanna Nash (book)
Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna
This is a telling of the Jessica Savitch story, the newswoman who, in the 1970's, became the "First Woman Anchor". Sally/Tally is taken under the wing of Warren in a Miami newsroom and becomes a news star on TV. Despite her love for Warren, she takes the big chance and moves on to Philadelphia, where he follows to rescue her faltering career at the cost of his own - as she rises he falls.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 2 nominations.
Touchstone Pictures