Rent The Parallax View (1974)
3.6 of 5 from 139 ratings
1h 38min
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- Synopsis:
- "The Parallax View", a superb drama about one man's paranoia that turns out to be total, incredible fact, ranks among the best political thrillers. Warren Beatty is a news reporter who, along with seven others, witnesses the assassination of a political candidate. When the other seven die in "accidents", the newsman begins to doubt the official position: that a lone madman was responsible for the crime. He imagines a sophisticated network of highly trained murderers. But his nightmares pale against the bizarre truth he uncovers.
- Actors:
- Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels, Walter McGinn, Hume Cronyn, Kelly Thordsen, Chuck Waters, Earl Hindman, William Joyce, Betty Murray, Bill McKinney, Jo Ann Harris, Ted Gehring, Lee Pulford, Doria Cook-Nelson, Jim Davis, Joan Lemmo, Kenneth Mars, William Jordan, Edward Winter
- Directors:
- Alan J. Pakula
- Producers:
- Alan J. Pakula
- Writers:
- David Giler, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Loren Singer, Robert Towne
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Thrillers
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 09/02/2021
- Run Time:
- 102 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by film historian Kevin Lyons (2021)
- Audio commentary by film critic/podcast producer Blake Howard (2021)
- Kim Newman on 'The Parallax View' and conspiracy thrillers (2021)
- Matthew Sweet on 'The Parallax View' (2021)
- Witness to a Conspiracy - video essay by Chris O'Neill (2021)
- Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (3) of The Parallax View
A rather good conspiracy movie - The Parallax View review by RP
A rather good conspiracy movie. It was made in 1974 so it's a bit dated in parts (haircuts, cars, typewriters, TV sets, the video game 'Pong' etc) but these don't detract too much. It has all the essentials components that make a good conspiracy: a mysterious corporation is manipulating events, in this case The Parallax Corporation which carries out political assassinations. It has the brave, lone, investigative reporter (played by Warren Beatty) who finds out that witnesses to the killing of a US Senator in Seattle are being killed off one-by-one. He investigates, is recruited by Parallax, but finds out the hard way that such recruits are just patsies. I enjoyed it and rate it 4/5 stars. Aside: If you like a good conspiracy movie there's quite a good list on Wikipedia: search for "List of conspiracy-thriller films and television series".
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Paranoia, Inc. - The Parallax View review by griggs
Being British, it's easy to forget just how much Watergate shook the American psyche—and still does. Alan J. Pakula's The Parallax View made just before All the President's Men, is soaked in paranoia, political assassinations, and shadowy organisations pulling the strings. Released the same year as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, it's part of that '70s wave of films obsessed with surveillance and conspiracy. Some of its political speeches feel like they could've been written today and, therefore, feel eerily fresh. However, it drags in places, and not everything lands, but as a paranoid thriller, it keeps you hooked just enough.
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Humdrum at best - The Parallax View review by AB
Storyline been done so many times before and better and this was actually uninteresting, even though it must have been one of the first of that genre.
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