Klute (1971)
Warner Bros. released Klute on June 25, 1971. Alan J. Pakula directed the film starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, and Charles Cioffi.
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With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda reinvented herself as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) turns up at her door—Fonda made the film her own, putting an independent woman and escort on-screen with a frankness that had not yet been attempted in Hollywood. Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, and lensed by master cinematographer Gordon Willis, Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society.
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Warner Bros. released Klute on June 25, 1971. Alan J. Pakula directed the film starring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, and Charles Cioffi.