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Blow Out
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terri stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. It's the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently Jack finds himself in danger.
20 April 1948, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 14, 1970 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 February 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
14 July 1920, Chicago, Illinois, USA
19 October 1945, Rochester, New York, USA
15 September 1921, Houston, Texas, USA
31 December 1963, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
May 04, 2017
... classic De Palma, with its sinister elegance, meticulous cinematic choreography, voyeuristic obsessions, and fascination with guilt, as well as his most human and mortally vulnerable film.
May 18, 2011
If cynicism were a superhero franchise, Blow Out would be its origin story.
March 26, 2009
With attractive leads and a stylish flair for suspense, De Palma misses sustaining involvement by his distracting allusions to prior films.
May 01, 2011
Blow Out integrates De Palma style with narrative urgency and thematic consistency better than any of his films.
June 24, 2006
Where Antonioni's images made you think, De Palma's merely make you blink, and the baroque plot confuses as often as it frightens.
March 27, 2009
This 1981 release is one of Brian De Palma's more interesting and better-made thrillers, though it's even more abjectly derivative than his Hitchcock imitations.
October 23, 2004
A movie which continues [De Palma] practice of making cross-references to other movies, other directors, and actual historical events, and which nevertheless is his best and most original work.
May 28, 2008
It's a great movie.
July 20, 2016
In a career fixated on the machinations of filmmaking presented through both a carnal and political eye, Brian De Palma's fascinations converged idyllically with Blow Out.
August 20, 2009
In the amazingly hyperbolic finale, DePalma conflates patriotism, dirty tricks, violence against women, and slasher movies into a single sick joke.
April 30, 2011
Perfectly contrasts movies that reveal the truth against those which avoid it - a blood-drenched yet stake-free slasher vs. the far more insidious horrors of all-American living.
May 02, 2011
The final moments of Blow Out are among the most shocking and powerful of De Palma's oeuvre, tacking a final note of irony onto a story that is in every other way a straightforward denunciation of power run amok.
