Up Close & Personal

Up Close & Personal

Passion Brought Them Together... Only Success Could Tear Them Apart!

Directed by Jon Avnet

Produced by Cinergi Pictures, The Avnet/Kerner Company

1996119 min6.3 / 10

A romantic drama about ambition and love in the high-stakes world of television news, where professional success and personal connection are locked in constant tension.

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...

Questions people ask

  • Is Up Close & Personal violent? Barely. Less violent than 76% of films.

  • Is Up Close & Personal easy watching? Somewhat. More comforting than 71% of films.

  • Is Up Close & Personal sad? Somewhat. More sad than 70% of films.

  • Is Up Close & Personal scary? Not especially. Less frightening than 65% of films.

  • Does Up Close & Personal end with hope? Somewhat. More hopeful than 62% of films.

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Rarity31

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Surprise23

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Love35

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