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Blow Out [DVD] [1980]

DVD ~ John Travolta
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  • Actors: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, John McMartin
  • Directors: Brian De Palma
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: MGM Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 29 April 2002
  • Run Time: 108 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000063BMH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,667 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features
2.35 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
French\German\Italian\Spanish
English\German
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Surround English\Mono German Spanish French Italian
Dolby Digital Surround
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Synopsis
While outdoors recording sound effects for a movie, audio technician Jack Terri hears a tire blowout and a car crash. Before the car sinks into the river, he manages to save the female passenger from drowning. Because the other passenger was a presidential candidate, Jack suspects that the "accident" was a political murder. Afterwards, Jack falls in love with Sally, the woman he rescued, and learns that she's been in cahoots with Manny, a sleazy photographer who's operating a blackmail scheme. As part of their scam, Manny photographs Sally with important men in what appear to be compromising situations. Jack starts to wonder whether he's being paranoid or whether things are not quite what they seem. Then the assassin turns his attention to Jack and Sally, and Jack has to use every special effects trick in the book to keep them both alive.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic De Palma receives poor DVD, 12 Nov 2003
By Neil Mckenzie (Fife, Scotland) - See all my reviews
Blow out is a classic example of the cinema of Brian De Palma and features a career best perfomance from John Travolta

The film follows John Travolta film sound recordist who records a car crash that kills a presdential candidate. He becomes convinced that the car crash was no accident and starts to investigate it with help of a woman who was in the car at the time of the crash.

De Palma cleverly uses different techniques like split screens and deep focus photography to make us emphasis with Travolta's character as he despartely tries to convince people that an assaination has taken place.

The film features many classic sequences in which De Palma uses every technique in the book to create tension and suspense for the audience. Your are left on the edge of your seat to the final tragic ending.

While the DVD is thankfully in 2:35:1 widescreen format rather than the awful pan and scan version that has previously been available on video. The transfer is not as good as it might have been which is a pity as it lessens the impact of some of the shots. There are also no extras apart from a trailer on this DVD, which is a pity as it would have been interesting to hear De Palma discuss this classic film.

The DVD is still worth owning if you are a De Palma fan its just a shame that MGM could have not taken a bit more care with its presentation.

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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, 8 Jul 2007
By T. Charnley - See all my reviews
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When I found out that this film had bombed on its release at the box office, I was sickened, but a part of me was glad, because some of the best movies do fail at the cinema, but that takes nothing away from the sheer brilliance of this thrilling masterpiece, which sees Travolta playing a gifted film sound technician who witnesses and accidentally records an assasination.

Nancy Allen is wonderful as the girl who is also nearly sent to her doom, but almost as soon as she meets Jack who comes to see her at the hospital, I knew she wouldn't make it at the end.

John Lithgow's chillingly cold and calculated hitman is enough to make you realise that this film will not have a happy ending, and as such, the ending is horrible. She dies and he has her scream recorded for a new film! It is powerfully put together and in a strange way, romantic. A love story that is never allowed to happen. The most tragic of endings, but it makes this excellent thriller even better.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Lurid thriller which confuses as much as it entertains, 26 May 2008
By Lou Knee (England) - See all my reviews
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While some elements of this film pleased me, generally I found its style a little too overdone, a little too intent on trying to make an impact. The director was very concerned with his visual style setting the tone which was supposed to be disturbing or slightly portentous, so he lifted a lot of techniques from Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorcese, it appeared to me, to create this unsettling atmosphere. Some of his camera shots were absolutely lovely, his use of locations, fantastic, v much in the manner of AH. The real faults were with the narrative, as he tried so hard to create this psychological atmosphere that it became a little disjointed and started to be confusing. By the end of the film I wasn't sure if I was watching a movie about a crazed serial killer with a hatred for women or a cold contract killer I presumed he was supposed to be. The direction was overdone, too focused on being sleazy and disturbing, and created the wrong atmosphere for the type of killer the screenplay had. And the casting of Lithgo to play this character helped this confusion none! So it didn't work for me as a thriller, but it was entertaining and good to look at in places.
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