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The Conversation [1974]
starring: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5017188812191
Format: PAL
Label: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Region Code: 2
Release Date: August 01, 2005
Running Time: 108 minutes
Studio: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
Theatrical Release Date: 1974
Sales Rank: 2291

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Hard going indeed
I have to agree with the other two recent reviews which found this movie less than entertaining. I fell asleep twice watching this - it's technically very good, yes, but entertaining? Certainly not. Give it a miss.

Rating:

- Claustrophobic paranoia at its best...
Jack is a mercenary, a spy, a technical artist and a troubled soul. In the most impressive performance of his career, Gene Hackman portrays a lonely private detective, at the top of his game, paid by companies and private individuals to listen in on rivals, in business or in love. He tries to maintain detachment, but when a case he works on appears to be as important as life and death, his intrigue and his paranoia are irrepressible.

This is a supreme movie, that confirmed, if the Godfather trilogy were not enough, that Coppola is up there with the greatest of the great Directors. A brilliant portrayal of the downward spiral of paranoia, loneliness and nobility.

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- Like watching paint dry
The slowest, dullest, most overrated (critics love it) movie I've ever sat through. At least watching paint dry isn't confusing. Dense, turgid, plodding repetition bury any seed of a plot there may have been. With an infuriatingly obtuse ending, thin, mumbled dialogue and baffling dream sequences, it is the only bad (no, TERRIBLE) film I've ever seen Gene Hackman in.

No doubt it is technically very good in terms of direction, a masterclass in acting technique, a superb character study etc. but it is horribly inaccessible, boringly indeed excessively layered, like some technically brilliant but esoterically contrived pretentious piece of avant-garde rubbish that the snobs/critics argue you're not supposed to "get".

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- Boring rubbish!
How do the people in these reviews justify giving this film such a high rating.Everyone has an opinion but to me classic 5 star films would be The Godfathers 1+2,The Shawshank Redemption and Carlito's Way,not this crap.The main reasons i bought it were because i rate Gene Hackman highly and from the reviews i had read about this Oscar nominee.
I had to turn it off 3/4s of the way through.It was sending me to sleep!

Rating:

- Inconsistancies or not
I enjoyed this immensely, despite some glaring inadequacies in the plot.
Blood in the toilet, this would surely set some alarms with the hotel management. Also, how did the couple manage to remove the body from the bedroom at the hotel without being detected. I cannot believe Harry would be so foolish and unproffesional as to have a party with rivals at his office or that he would be so easily taken in by the woman who stole the tapes, nor would he have accepted a pen from a rival who was demonstating bugging devices.
Nevertheless, the film was riviting, the acting supberb, the most re-watchable film I have viewed for a long time. Having rented it am now about to buy it. It rates very highly with me.

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