Fonda is simply a revelation, beautiful, sassy and streetwise, and yet hauntingly vulnerable. She deserved her Oscar in a role she has never bettered.
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08/30/09
Klute (1971)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:27
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Adapting the traditional structure of 1940s film noir detective movies, director Alan Pakula created a thriller that addressed the 1970s issue of the compromises faced by a woman trying to maintain... [More]
Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Roy Scheider, Rita Gam
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Reviews for Klute
Top CriticFor once, a genuinely psychological thriller.
02/09/06
Top CriticA knock-out
06/12/04
Informed in part by the conventions of film noir...Klute manages to distil them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling.
04/17/01
Top CriticOne of the most important and influential movies of the early 1970s.
09/15/09
[Fonda] makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance.
08/30/09
Top CriticSutherland is either an excellent sounding board for this nuanced portrait or he's a big zero, probably both. Fonda, however, transcends her limitations, making the most of her often forced quality as an actress.
08/30/09
Top CriticNo review available.
07/29/05
No review available.
06/25/05
Fonda won an Oscar. Roy Scheider is her nasty pimp!
04/22/05
No review available.
03/26/05
With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important.
10/23/04
Top CriticFonda and Sutherland sizzle. A great story too.
10/15/04
No review available.
09/23/04
No review available.
06/29/04
Pakula, when he is not indulging in subjective camera, strives to give his film the look of structural geometry, but despite the sharp edges and dramatic spaces and cinema presence out of Citizen Kane, it all suggests a tepid, rather tasteless mush.
05/21/03
Top CriticFonda and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fasinating look into the mind and soul of a top NYC callgirl.
03/10/03
No review available.
02/21/03
A gripping suspense thriller; Fonda tough and vulnerable deserved her Oscar here.
10/23/02
No review available.
08/29/02
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