Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 02/05/2002
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol/Por/Japanese
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: 5.1/1
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Not For Children, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
The first part of his "paranoia trilogy,"
Alan J. Pakula's 1971
thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks. Investigating the disappearance of his friend
Tom Gruneman (
Robert Milli), rural Pennsylvania private eye
John Klute (
Donald Sutherland) follows a lead provided by
Gruneman's associate
Peter Cable (
Charles Cioffi) to seek out a call girl who
Gruneman knew in New York City. The call girl is
Bree Daniels (
Jane Fonda), an aspiring actress who turns tricks for the cash and to be free of emotional bondage.
Klute follows
Bree's every move, observing the city's decadence and her isolation, eventually contacting her about
Gruneman.
Bree claims not to know
Gruneman, but she does reveal that she has received threats from a john. As
Bree becomes involved in
Klute's search and realizes that she is in danger, she reluctantly falls in love with
Klute, despite her wish to remain unattached to any man. When she finally comes face to face with the killer, however, she is forced to reconsider her detached urban life.
~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
;)
