The Parallax View (1999)
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Director:Alan J. Pakula
Studio:Paramount
Producer:Charles H. Maguire, Alan J. Pakula, Gabriel Katzka, Robert Jiras
Writer:Lorenzo Semple Jr., Robert Towne, David Giler, Loren Singer
Rating:8
Rated:R
Date Added:2014-04-12
UPC:097360867077
Price:$9.98
Awards:2 wins & 2 nominations
Genre:Thriller
Release:1999-06-22
IMDb:0071970
Location:1336
Duration:110
Picture Format:Widescreen
Aspect Ratio:2.35:1
Sound:Mono
Languages:English
Subtitles:English
Alan J. Pakula  ...  (Director)
Lorenzo Semple Jr., Robert Towne, David Giler, Loren Singer  ...  (Writer)
 
Warren Beatty  ...  Joseph Frady
Paula Prentiss  ...  Lee Carter
William Daniels  ...  Austin Tucker
Walter McGinn  ...  Jack Younger
Hume Cronyn  ...  Bill Rintels
Kelly Thordsen  ...  Sheriff L.D. Wicker
Chuck Waters  ...  Thomas Richard Linder
Earl Hindman  ...  Deputy Red
William Joyce  ...  Senator Charles Carroll (as Bill Joyce)
Bettie Johnson  ...  Mrs. Charles Carroll
Bill McKinney  ...  Parallax Assassin
Jo Ann Harris  ...  Chrissy - Frady's Girl (as JoAnne Harris)
Ted Gehring  ...  Schecter - Hotel Clerk
Lee Pulford  ...  Shirley - Salmontail Bar Girl
Doria Cook-Nelson  ...  Gale from Salmontail (as Doria Cook)
Kenneth Mars  ...  Former FBI Agent Will
Summary: While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his newswoman former girlfriend Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) was there. Even after a government commission concludes that it was a freak lone assassin, Lee tells Joe that she fears for her life since other witnesses keep dying. After she too turns up dead, Joe investigates, travelling to the small town where another witness has mysteriously expired. Stumbling on a corporate identity for the killers, Joe decides to dig deeper by infiltrating the Parallax Corporation as one of their hired assassins. As Joe becomes increasingly isolated in his assumed identity, he discovers what Parallax is all about -- but Parallax knows all about Joe too. Made between Klute (1971) and All the President's Men (1976), The Parallax View was the second film in Pakula's "paranoia" trilogy; it proved too dark even for a 1974 audience that embraced such other challenging films of that year as The Godfather, Part II and Chinatown, making The Parallax View the sole flop of Pakula's trilogy.