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Blow Out

1981 · 1h 48m · Crime, Mystery, Thriller · United States of America · Rated R (US)

Murder has a sound all of its own.

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 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.

Directed by
Brian De Palma
Written by
Brian De Palma, Bill Mesce Jr.
Starring
John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz
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