Blow Out

Theatrical - Wide 1981-07-24

Cast John Travolta Nancy Allen John Lithgow Dennis Franz Peter Boyden
Directed by Brian De Palma

Box Office Gross: $12,000,000

Running Time: 108 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Cinema 77, Filmways Pictures, Geria Productions

Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller

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While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger... See more is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

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