Klute
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| Directed by | Alan J. Pakula |
| Produced by | Alan J. Pakula |
| Written by | Andy Lewis Dave Lewis |
| Starring | Jane Fonda Donald Sutherland Charles Cioffi Roy Scheider |
| Music by | Michael Small |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | June 25, 1971 (USA) |
| Running time | 114 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | USD$8,000,000 |
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Klute is a 1971 film which tells the story of a prostitute who assists a detective in solving a mystery. It stars Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Dorothy Tristan, Vivian Nathan, and Roy Scheider. The movie was written by Andy Lewis and Dave Lewis and directed by Alan J. Pakula. The film includes a cameo appearance by the famed Warhol Superstar actress Candy Darling in the Disco scene.
Tagline: Lots of guys swing with a call girl like Bree. One guy just wants to kill her.
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[edit] Plot summary
The film begins with the disappearance of a Pennsylvania corporate executive named Tom Gruneman (briefly seen in the opening sequence), whose family hires a friend, police officer John Klute (Sutherland) to act as a private investigator and to look for him. A typewritten, obscene letter found in Gruneman's desk leads Klute to his only lead, Bree Daniels (Fonda), a call girl living in New York City to whom the letter was addressed.
The relatively provincial Klute becomes drawn into Bree's seedy world, discovers that several of Bree's fellow call girls have been murdered by a homicidal "john", and that she herself was nearly killed by the same man—presumably Gruneman. After an uneasy start, the two work together to track down the killer.
Along the way, Klute, the small-town cop, and Bree, the cynical city-slicker, develop an unlikely romance as he becomes protective of her and offers her a kind of genuine affection to which she is completely unaccustomed.
[edit] Awards
It won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Jane Fonda), and was nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Based on Factual Material or Material Not Previously Published or Produced.
[edit] Trivia
- According to her autobiography, Jane Fonda hung out with call girls and pimps for a week before beginning this film in order to prepare for her role. When none of the pimps offered to "represent" her, she became convinced she wasn't desirable enough to play a prostitute and urged the director to replace her with her friend Faye Dunaway.
- Barbra Streisand turned down the role of Bree Daniels, which then won Fonda the Academy Award.
- In an episode of American Dad! originally aired on December 17, 2006, Stan Smith is transported to 1970 in a parody of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Stan proceeds to seek out Jane Fonda in order to kill her and prevent liberal values from eventually ruining American culture. He finds Fonda on the set of Klute and discovers that it was Donald Sutherland who convinced her to become involved in politics.
- Sylvester Stallone who was unknown at the time appears as an extra in the club scene.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Klute at the Internet Movie Database
