Up Close & Personal

Up Close & Personal

119 mins | Drama, Romance | March 1, 1996

Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...

Up Close & Personal

119 mins | Drama, Romance | March 1, 1996

Up Close & Personal
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Cinergi Pictures Entertainment, Touchstone Pictures
Original title Up Close & Personal
Directors Scott Harris, Jon Avnet, David McGiffert
Writers John Gregory Dunne, Joan Didion

Cast

Robert Redford

as Warren Justice

Michelle Pfeiffer

as Tally Atwater

Stockard Channing

as Marcia McGrath

Joe Mantegna

as Bucky Terranova

Kate Nelligan

as Joanna Kennelly

Glenn Plummer

as Ned Jackson

James Rebhorn

as John Merino

Scott Bryce

as Rob Sullivan

Raymond Cruz

as Fernando Buttanda

Dedee Pfeiffer

as Luanne Atwater

Michael Laskin

as IBS Director

Lorielle New

as Merino's Secretary

Miguel Sandoval

as Dan Duarte

James Karen

as Tom Orr

Fabian

as Fabian

Dennis Dun

as Satellite Van Technician

Noble Willingham

as Buford Sells

Brian Markinson

as Vic Nash

Robert Keith Watson

as IBS Makeup Man

Lily Gibson

as Star Atwater

Joanna Sanchez

as Ileana

Daniel Zacapa

as Harvey Harris

Heidi Swedberg

as Sheila

Yareli Arizmendi

as Inez Cifuentes

Salvador Levy

as Congressman Diaz

Michael Villani

as Doug Dunning

Elizabeth Ruscio

as Lulu Delano