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Up Close & Personal (1996)

Rate: 4
Viewed: 7/17

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7/17: This time, John Gage doesn't have to offer one million dollars for the privilege to fuck his next catch of the day.

That sly bastard. He's 22 years her senior, and I bet he still likes that line: "The man was a fucking stallion." Michelle Pfeiffer is the same terrible actress from Scarface. Her character's meteoric rise in Up Close & Personal is 100% bullshit and will never happen in real life.

Who goes from an administrative assistant to a weatherwoman to a reporter at a flunky news station and then from a news reporter to an anchor in Philadelphia before being promoted to the top job for a national TV news show that's all in one or two years' time? The trouble is: Tally has shit for brains.

Even stupid is the professional anchorwoman taking the job in Cincinnati, a top thirty market, which is a huge step down from a top five market. There's no reason for her to do that; she's a lot more seasoned and professional than Tally who seems to be intent in wanting to feed the lines of schmaltzy garbage to the public mass.

What the hell was John Gage thinking? Oh, right. It's the fucking that clouded his mind. Up Close & Personal was made for $60 million, but I wonder where the money went. It looks like a simple movie with no special effects. By the way, I first thought it was Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, but it's actually Holmesburg Prison which is located twelve miles further northeast, having been closed since 1995. I didn't know the place existed the whole time.

All in all, I'll take Broadcast News over Up Close & Personal any time of the day.