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THE CONVERSATION

  • 1974
  • 1 HR, 54 min
  • DEC 20 → DEC 22
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Released April 7, 1974
United States
1 hour, 54 minutes
Rialto Pictures
None
Starring
  • Gene Hackman
  • Harrison Ford
  • Robert Duvall
  • Frederic Forrest
  • Cindy Williams
  • John Cazale
Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Film Information

Lonely wiretapping expert and devout Catholic Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple in danger if he turns the material over to his client (Robert Duvall). But what one hears can ultimately turn out to be quite different from what was actually recorded.

Film Stills

Full Cast
Gene Hackman
Harrison Ford
Robert Duvall
Frederic Forrest
Cindy Williams
John Cazale
Additional Credits
Francis Ford Coppola Director

Reviews

“AN IMMACULATE THRILLER…a study in paranoia and loneliness, partly inspired by Antonioni’s Blow-Up , and released as the Watergate scandal was unfolding, [with] one of Gene Hackman’s greatest performances.”

Philip French
The Guardian

“You know how some movies need to be seen on a big screen? The Conversation needs to be heard in an auditorium on the kind of equipment you don’t have at home. It’s an intricately constructed aural experience about the act of listening, and how sometimes our perceptions of sounds are shaped by what we want to hear.”

Sean Burns
WBUR

“A shout-out to Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow-up , The Conversation perfectly encapsulates the disaffection, alienation, and paranoia infecting America’s body politic in the era of Watergate.”

Budd Wilkins
Slant Magazine

“Celebrated in its time yet ahead of it, powerfully entertaining as well as prescient…as disturbing and unnerving as ever, if not more so.”

Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times

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