Blow Out

Blow Out

7.4IMDb Score
Released:1981-07-24
Duration:108 min
Director:Brian De Palma
Actors:John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden
Production:Cinema 77, Filmways Pictures, Geria Productions

Overview:

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

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