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| Category | Dramas DVDs, Thriller Movies, Mystery Videos, Suspense, Recommended, Essential Cinema, Killers, Psychos, Character Study, Prostitution | | Starring | Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Jean Stapleton, Roy Scheider, Nathan George, Charles Cioffi, Rita Gam, Dorothy Tristan | | Director | Alan J. Pakula | | Art Director | George Jenkins | | Cinematographer | Gordon Willis | | Composer | Michael Small | | Editor | Carl Lerner | | Producer | Alan J. Pakula, David Lang | | Screenwriter | David P. Lewis, Andy K. Lewis |
Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Academy Awards; English Subtitles 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 her freedom. Gloomy and stark, the film tracks Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda), a Manhattan prostitute and aspiring actress in search of herself. Small-town private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland) arrives in Manhattan to find that Bree is the only lead in the disappearance of his good friend Tom Gruneman. Bree turns tricks for cash and a need for emotional freedom, wishing to remain unattached and in control. However, as she becomes involved in Klute's search and realizes she too is in danger, she also surprises herself by falling in love. Gordon Willis's (THE GODFATHER) cinematography provides a shadowy and claustrophobic atmosphere in which tapped phones and shadowy stalkers abound. An intense suspense thriller with a haunting soundtrack, KLUTE is the first part of what director Alan Pakula described as his "paranoid trilogy." This is an appropriate summation of film subjects at the time: Jane Fonda's landmark performance as Bree Daniels was filled with nuances that personified the fears and tensions of urban life.
The story follows rural Pennsylvania private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland), who is investigating the disappearance of his friend Tom Gruneman. Klute's only lead points him to a Manhattan call girl named Bree Daniels (Fonda), who is being stalked by an obsessed john. Shot on location in New York City, the film is both an intriguing and intelligently adult suspense film and a showcase for Fonda, who won an Academy Award for her role. Theatrical release: June 25, 1971
Shot on location in New York City, Pakula's team used a studio on 127th Street in Harlem as its base of operations.
The disco scene was shot in an abandoned West Side church.
In an interview, Alan Pakula said Jane Fonda wanted to quit the picture before shooting because she thought she wasn't good enough for the role. Pakula convinced her to stay, and she channeled her nervousness into a performance that earned her a Best Actress Oscar.
The screenplay for KLUTE was nominated for a Screen Award by the Writers Guild (WGA).
Pakula liked to call KLUTE, THE PARALLAX VIEW, and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN his "paranoid trilogy."
"Don't feel bad about losing your virtue. I sort of knew you would; everybody always does."--Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda)
"Inhibitions are always so nice because they're so nice to overcome."--Bree
Klute Reviews: "...[A] beautifully observed romance/thriller..."
-- Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly "KLUTE is more of a character study, seemingly about Fonda herself..."
-- Andy Webster, Premiere Klute | List Price | $19.97 (You save $5.52) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1971 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5945  | | CD Universe Part number | 2370360 | | Catalog number | 1027 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 05, 2002 | | Rating | R (MPAA) | | Running Time | 114 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen |
Klute Movie Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   Thriller
This ranks up there as one of her better movies. She is believable as a call girl. That's always the first thing I look for in a movie. If the actors have the ability to make me believe I am there watching them. I can see why she won an Academy Award for it. Donald Sutherland is great too as a private detective.
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 Fonda gives the best American portrait of a prostute ever.
Jane Fonda gives an absolutely brilliant performance for which she quite deservedly won a Best Actress Oscar. In this taut psychological thriller, Fonda plays Bree Daniel, a would-be actress-model who earns her living as a high-class call girl. The story concerns Klute (Donald Sutherland), a small-town policeman who comes to New York in search of a missing friend. He meets Fonda, and begins to fall in love with her. The murder mystery soon takes a back seat to one of the most affecting love stories of the '70s with one of the most memorable music scores provided by the underrated Michael Small.
But it's Jane's picture all the way under the sure hand of director Alan J. Pakula. As Bree Daniel, Fonda is vulnerable, self-aware and articulate. Bree's knowledge that as a prostitute she has nowhere to go but down and her mixed-up efforts to escape, made her one of the strongest feminine characters to reach the screen in the '70s. As an actress, Fonda has a special kind of smartness that takes the form of speed; she's always a little ahead of everybody, and this quicker beat--this quicker responsiveness--makes her more exciting to watch. This quality works to great advantage in her full scale, definitive portrait of Bree. As in many of her other dramatic roles, Fonda never stands outside her character, she gives herself over to the role, and yet she isn't LOST in it--she's fully in control, and her means are extraordinarily economical. She has somehow got to a plane of acting at which even the closest close-ups never reveals a false thought and, seen on the movie streets a block away, She's Bree, not Jane Fonda, walking toward us. It's hard to remember that this is the same actress who was the wide-eyed, bare-bottomed "Barbarella" or the anxious newlywed in "Barefoot in the Park". There wasn't another dramatic actress in American films at the time who could touch her. [filmfactsman]
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Klute DVD Region 1
Snap Case
Single Side - Dual Layer
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35
Letterbox - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - English, French
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: KLUTE IN NEW YORK: A BACKGROUND FOR SUSPENCE
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Film Highlights:
1. Cast
2. Alan Pakula - Director
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