Up Close & Personal

1996 · directed by Jon Avnet

Rating

50/100

Hit

no

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...

Up Close & Personal (1996), directed by Jon Avnet, rates 50/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

• Robert Redford
• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Stockard Channing
• Joe Mantegna
• Kate Nelligan
• Glenn Plummer
• James Rebhorn
• Scott Bryce
• Raymond Cruz
• Dedee Pfeiffer

Crew

• Karl Walter Lindenlaub — Director of Photography
• Debra Neil-Fisher — Editor
• Thomas Newman — Original Music Composer
• Joan Didion — Screenplay
• John Gregory Dunne — Screenplay

More from Jon Avnet

1. Uprising (2001) — 81/100 · TV film, not counted
2. Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) — 74/100
3. The Last Rodeo (2025) — 67/100
4. Three Christs (2017) — 55/100
5. The War (1994) — 51/100
6. Red Corner (1997) — 49/100

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