Blow Out

(1981)

★ 7.4 IMDb · 1,740 votes

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Year: 1981

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Брайан Де Пальма

Cast: Джон Траволта, Нэнси Аллен, Джон Литгоу, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, John Aquino, Джон МакМартин, Deborah Everton, Патрик МакНамара, Roger Wilson

Plot

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.

This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master audio technician who makes his living by recording unique sounds for grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.