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If you are lucky, you will get an English audio, no subtitle copy
I did, though it came with a statement on the back that I could also have Casteliano with Casteliano subtitles - no English subtitles, it would seem.Hard to get these days - world currency collapse is not the nightmare of choice - we now know how it really happens - with US mortgage finance. No role for Jane Fonda in that. So in the late 70s Pakula had to do it with petrochemicals - in reality far too economically important for that particular McGuffin without a good old-fashioned imperialistic war, a bit expensive to stage. No-one would have bought a good pandemic then - folk still believed anti-biotics worked. So a re-booting of "Panic in the Streets" was out. All the same, money can launch this exercise in paranoia and keep it running smoothly in the bestPakula manner,(price displays morph effortlessly into high-rise windows as dollars are dumped in an exchange rate crisis) until the final scenes which take leave of the 70s for the mythical cinema of the 1920s. How naive we were.
N**R
A 1981 'finance' film that is 100% relevant in 2010!
They should re-release this movie now! It concerns all the financial skullduggery that's been going on in the past 18mths and it was made 29 years ago! History repeats itself, but we all forget or weren't old enough to be aware at the time.Great performances by Kristofferson & Fonda. Pakula is a genius director, also see 'The Parallax View'.
R**K
Not Pakula's greatest film but when it remembers to be a thriller ...
Not Pakula's greatest film but when it remembers to be a thriller rather than a romantic drama, it has a lot going for it. The closing sequence is especially strong.
T**A
Three Stars
Would not watch it again. Very cliched.
D**S
How international high finance rolls over everthing.
excellent story foreshadowing what happened in the actual banking sector some years later. Kris Kristofferson and Jane Fonda are a good combinationwith Hume Cronyn a very convincing manipulator.
H**D
To be repeated.
A story of an earlier era of the same financial comedy we face now.Same clowns who now have mobile phones and flash-trading platforms.
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