UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
A film review by Tim Voon
Copyright 1997 Tim Voon
Cast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert Redford, Joe Mantegna, Stockard Channing, Kate Nelligan, Glenn Plummer, James Rebhorn Director: Jon Avnet Screenplay: Joan Didion & John Gregory Dunne, suggested by the book GOLDEN GIRL by Alanna Nash
Sleep your way to the top, but first, play hard to catch.
Tally Atwater (Pfeiffer) is an unknown reporter from a small town whose dream is to become a 'star'. So she sends a fake resume to Warren Justice (Redford), the director of a news broadcast in Miami and is hired. At first she fetches his coffee and dry cleaning; then is given a stint at being the weather girl before progressing to news reporting.
Pfeiffer is in my regards a good actress; however, she is just not reporter material. The idea of dying her hair brunette to bring herself credibility is as ludicrous as calling elephants pink, but what would I know.
Redford becomes her teacher, mentor and lover. In a matter of years she progresses to being a news anchor woman for the nations prime time news station; but this is not before she survives a prison riot where she is locked up with angry, hostile, sex-deprived prisoners and comes through unscathed!
Comment: She should have stayed the weather girl.
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