Directed by:
Alan J. PakulaCinematography:
Gordon WillisComposer:
Michael SmallCast:
Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan, Rita Gam, Nathan George, Vivian Nathan, Richard B. Shull, Veronica Hamel (more)VOD (3)
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With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda arrived full-fledged as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) turns up at her door—Fonda made the film her own, putting an independent woman and escort on-screen with a frankness that had not yet been attempted in Hollywood. Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, and lensed by master cinematographer Gordon Willis, Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society. (Criterion)
(more)Cast
Jane Fonda
USA
Best movies:
On Golden Pond (1981)
Coming Home (1978)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Donald Sutherland
Canada
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Charles Cioffi
USA
Best movies:
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Roy Scheider
USA
Best movies:
Jaws (1975)
The Rainmaker (1997)
The French Connection (1971)
Dorothy Tristan
USA
Best movies:
Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story (1976) (TV movie)
Scarecrow (1973)
Klute (1971)
Rita Gam
USA
Best movies:
King of Kings (1961)
Law and Disorder (1974)
Klute (1971)
Nathan George
Best movies:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Serpico (1973)
Brubaker (1980)
Vivian Nathan
USA
Best movies:
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The Young Savages (1961)
Klute (1971)
Richard B. Shull
USA
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Two Family House (2000)
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Veronica Hamel
USA
Best movies:
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Klute (1971)
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Kevin Dobson
USA
Best movies:
Midway (1976)
Klute (1971)
Sweet Revenge (1984) (TV movie)
Lee Wallace
USA
Best movies:
Batman (1989)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Klute (1971)
Harry Reems
USA
Best movies:
The Grafenberg Spot (1985)
Klute (1971)
The Cartier Affair (1984) (TV movie)
Rosalind Cash
USA
Best movies:
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The New Centurions (1972)
Klute (1971)
Jean Stapleton
USA
Best movies:
You've Got Mail (1998)
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Sylvester Stallone
USA
Best movies:
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Rocky IV (1985)
Candy Darling
USA
Best movies:
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Shirley Stoler
USA
Best movies:
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Seven Beauties (1975)
Three O'Clock High (1987)
Anthony Holland
USA
Best movies:
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High Stakes (1989)
All That Jazz (1979)
Antonia Rey
Cuba
Best movies:
Hair (1979)
Beat Street (1984)
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