A senator is assassinated and shortly afterward all the journalists who reported on the crime start to die. A reporter investigates and discovers Parallax Corporation, a mysterious organization that contaminates politics with crime. After a decade of political assassinations and one year after Nixon’s impeachment over the Watergate scandal, paranoia is rampant. The acknowledged specialist: Alan J. Pakula, who weaves a no-exit nightmare around Warren Beatty.
Biography
film director
Alan J. Pakula
Alan Jay Pakula (New York, NY, Usa, 1928 - Melville, Long Island, NY, Usa, 1998).
FILMOGRAFIA
The Sterile Cuckoo (Pookie, 1969), Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Amore e dolore e tutto quel dannato pasticcio, 1973), The Parallax View (Perché un assassinio, 1974), All the President’s Men (Tutti gli uomini del presidente, 1976), Comes a Horseman (Arriva un cavaliere libero e selvaggio, 1978), Starting Over (E ora punto e a capo, 1979), Rollover (Il volto dei potenti, 1981), Sophie’s Choice (La scelta di Sophie, 1982), Dream Lover (id., 1986), Orphans (Un ostaggio di riguardo, 1987), See You in the Morning (Ci penseremo domani, 1989), Presumed Innocent (Presunto innocente, 1990), Consenting Adults (Giochi d’adulti, 1992), The Pelican Brief (Il rapporto Pelican, 1993), The Devil’s Own (L’ombra del diavolo, 1997).
Cast
& Credits
Alan J. Pakula
SOGGETTO
dal romanzo Programmazione omicidi di/from the novel of the same title by Loren Singer
SCENEGGIATURA
David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr
FOTOGRAFIA
Gordon Willis
MONTAGGIO
John W. Wheeler
MUSICA
Michael Small
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Warren Beatty (Joseph Frady), Paula Prentiss (Lee Carter), William Daniels (Austin Tucker)
PRODUZIONE
Doubleday Productions, Gus, Harbor Productions