Gene Hackman
Harry Caul
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A 1974 American neo-noir thriller film by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Gene Hackman as a surveillance expert who faces a moral dilemma. The film explores themes of surveillance, perception, and reality, and was influenced by Antonioni's Blowup and the Watergate scandal.
The Conversation: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest. A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Francis Ford Coppola
- 1974-04-12
Feb 4, 2001 · Harry Caul is a microcosm of America at that time: not a bad man, trying to do his job, haunted by a guilty conscience, feeling tarnished by his work. The movie works on that moral level, and also as a taut, intelligent thriller.
Surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide (Harrison Ford) to tail a young couple, Mark (Frederic Forrest) and Ann...
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- Francis Ford Coppola
- PG
- Gene Hackman
A surveillance expert records a couple's conversation and fears they are in danger of being killed. He tries to save them, but his investigation leads him to a web of secrets and lies.
Apr 9, 2024 · Francis Ford Coppola's 1974 film The Conversation was a passion project – and its tale of a surveillance expert disturbed by what he hears hits even harder in 2024.
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