A very good movie

Since I’m a huge fan of Meryl Streep, I was really eager to check this flick. First of all, when you read the plot, it does sound a little bit like the material they would use for a real-life TV feature but the execution was quite impressive. Indeed, it was directed by Mick Nichols, who was coming back from a 8 years break, and he really managed to mix the raw daily routine of these characters with a nail-biting conspiracy thriller. With this movie, Meryl Streep got her 5th nomination at the Academy awards (for a total of 17 nominations!) and, as usual, she was quite amazing. To complete the cast, you had the always dependable Kurt Russell and Cher, who was launching at the time her acting career and who would become a major actress in the 80’s, even winning an Academy award for her performance in ‘Moonstruck’. The problem with Cher is that her public image is so obnoxious, you tend to dismiss her work when she made some pretty good movies in which she was half-decent. Coming back to our main feature, even though I’m not a huge fan of real-life tales, I thought that this story was quite spellbinding. To conclude, even though nowadays this movie is pretty much forgotten, it is actually really good and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Meryl Streep’s work.

7/10