Up Close & Personal

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Up Close & Personal

Directed by	Jon Avnet David McGiffert (1st A'sst)
Produced by	Jordan Kerner & David Nicksay
Written by	Alanna Nash (book) Joan Didion & John Gregory Dunne (screenplay)
Starring	Robert Redford Michelle Pfeiffer
Music by	Thomas Newman
Cinematography	Karl Walter Lindenlaub
Editing by	Debra Neil-Fisher
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures (USA Cinergi Pictures (foreign markets)
Release date(s)	March 1, 1996
Running time	124 min.
Language	English
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Up Close & Personal is a 1996 American motion picture drama/romance that was inspired by the story of Jessica Savitch who, in the 1970s, became the first female anchor on American television. The film is based on the 1988 book, Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch by Alanna Nash.

The making of the film is told in the book: Monster: Living Off the Big Screen, (1997), by John Gregory Dunne, one of the two screenwriters for the movie. The book relays how a movie about Jessica Savitch to some degree turned into A Star is Born-type film, where one person is a "rising star" while that person's love interest becomes a "falling star". To quote a spokesperson for the Disney company, who released the film, to Entertainment Weekly magazine, "Only a cold-blooded sadist would want to see a historically accurate movie about the tragedy of Jessica Savitch".

The film is noted for the use of the hit song "Because You Loved Me" performed by Celine Dion.