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Up Close & Personal

1996 · 119 min

A warm, old-fashioned romance about ambition and mentorship that slowly builds to an emotional gut-punch, carried by star charisma.

Directed by: Jon Avnet
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing

Tagline: Every day we have, is one more than we deserve.
Overview: 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...

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Directed by: Jon Avnet
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing

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Tone: romanticstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
love
work
grief
identity
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	7
Tension	4
Darkness	4
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	7

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