Monday, July 7, 2014

Up Close & Personal (1996)



An ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in TV journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.

A tearjerker so old-fashioned it's creaky with a plot that can' really decide where to go, albeit the two stars do play along very well.

Halliwell (no star): "Very much a 'so what?' movie, a sentimental weepie about what are presumably intended as glamorous and powerful lives; outside its home territory, it looks and sounds ridiculous."

Maltin***: "Paraphrase of A STAR IS BORN has everything but Pfeiffer saying "This is Mrs. Norman Maine" at the end, but it still works because of the thousand-watt charisma of its leads."


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