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Synopsis: Mike Gallagher is a Miami liquor wholesaler whose deceased father was a local mobster. The FBI organized crime task force have no evidence that he's involved with the mob but decide to pressure him into perhaps revealing something - anything - about a murder they're sure was a mob hit. They let Megan Carter, a naive but well-meaning journalist, know he is being investigated and Gallagher's name is soon all over the newspaper. Gallagher has an iron-clad alibi for when the murder occurred but won't reveal it to protect his fragile friend Teresa. When Carter publishes her story, tragedy ensues. Needing to make amends, Carter tells Gallagher the source of the first story about him and he sets out to teach the FBI and the Federal Attorney a lesson.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Director(s): Sydney Pollack
Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
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PG
Year:
1981
116 min
1,429 Views

Feeling sorry for yourself?

I know you think

what I do for a living...

is nothing.

But it really isn't nothing.

I just did it badly.

I get the feeling going

northeast has something

to do with your daughter.

[CHUCKLES]

You probably are

a hell of a reporter.

Not yet.

[]

Have a good trip.

I get the feeling I wanna say:

"Could I write?"

I'm afraid to hear your answer.

Maybe see you one of these days.

I'd like that.

Be well.

You too.

[]

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Kurt Luedtke

Kurt Luedtke (born September 28, 1939) is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing Out of Africa (1985), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, as well as Absence of Malice (1981) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay) and Random Hearts (1999). All three films were directed by Sydney Pollack. Before becoming a screenwriter, Luedtke was a newspaper reporter, eventually rising to the rank of executive editor of the Detroit Free Press. more…

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