Up Close & Personal (1996) on Netflix
Tally Atwater dreams of being a news anchor. Her demo tape of a fake story wins her a job at a Miami station, where Warren Justice gives her tough assignments.
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Plot summary
A demo tape built on a made-up story gets Tally Atwater hired at a Miami station, where news director Warren Justice takes a chance on her despite her rough edges. He sends her out on hard assignments to sharpen her talent, among them the drowning of two immigrants off Miami Beach. Her work earns his respect, and their friendship carries an undercurrent of attraction. On New Year's Eve she covers a local baby born to Fernando Buttanda, a convicted felon. A heated exchange with the lead male anchor happens on air.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Up Close & Personal (1996)
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- None of the more controversial details of Savitch's life remained in the finished film, including her alleged drug abuse problems that may have caused her to deliver an incoherent live news update in early October 1983, the suicide of her second husband a few months after their wedding, and her death at age 36 in an automobile accident.
- Producer Scott Rudin was reported to have said, when asked by a weary Dunne what the film was supposed to be, "it's about two movie stars."
- Dunne, having spent eight years working on the script with his wife Didion, later wrote a book describing his difficult experience, titled Monster: Living Off the Big Screen.
- "Because You Loved Me", the film's theme song written by Diane Warren and performed by Celine Dion, was nominated for Best Original Song at the 69th Academy Awards.
