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The Conversation
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
PG
1974
1h 54m
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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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Cast of The Conversation
Gene Hackman
Harry Caul
John Cazale
Stan
Allen Garfield
William P. 'Bernie' Moran
Frederic Forrest
Mark
Cindy Williams
Ann
Michael Higgins
Paul
Elizabeth MacRae
Meredith
Teri Garr
Amy Fredericks
Harrison Ford
Martin Stett
Mark Wheeler
Receptionist
Robert Shields
The Mime
Phoebe Alexander
Lurleen
Ramon Bieri
Man at Party (uncredited)
Gian-Carlo Coppola
Boy in Church (uncredited)
Robert Duvall
The Director (uncredited)
Richard Hackman
Confessional Priest / Security Guard (uncredited)
Billy Dee Williams
Man in Yellow Hat (uncredited)
Francis Ford Coppola
Director / Writer / Producer
Fred Roos
Co-Producer
Mona Skager
Associate Producer
The Conversation Ratings & Reviews
New York Daily News
Rex Reed
It is a superior movie, a dynamic social document, and an exemplary public service. In every way, a Kilimanjaro among motion pictures.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
The Conversation is driven by an inner logic. It's a little thin, because the logic is the working out of one character's obsession, but it's a buggy movie that can get to you so that when it's over you really feel you're being bugged.
Village Voice
Andrew Sarris
Coppola never lets us in on any of the tactical details. Obviously, he opts for surprise over suspense, but even his surprises are muffled by his solemn gaze.
The New Yorker
Penelope Gilliatt
This is a screenplay of the first quality, written with the eerie foresight of a real writer. It is very simply directed. Nothing gets in the way of the intended double meanings of the script.
Chicago Tribune
Gene Siskel
The story is well told, and it is tricky. But as good as it is, the narrative takes a back seat to Hackman's superior performance and to the film's disturbingly somber mood.
Los Angeles Times
Charles Champlin
The Conversation can have cost no more than a slight fraction of The Godfather, but it is a powerful and important picture, ominously fascinating in the wiretap age.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Perry Stewart
The character is so superbly written by Coppola that this probably would have been a memorable film even if Gene Hackman hadn't played Harry. But Hackman does, in a performance that will make you forget his Popeye Doyle.
Detroit Free Press
Susan Stark
Call him what you will. In Gene Hackman's hands, he becomes the personification of pathos -- a lonely, anxious, gray figure whose chosen field has all but killed his claim to humanity.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Judith Crist
Under Coppola's direction it succeeds on a variety of levels: as sheer thriller, as psychological study, as social analysis, and as political comment.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Elston Brooks
Chillingly, because it once seemed so far away, it is now only 10 years until 1984 when Big Brother is supposed to be watching. In the meantime, Harry Caul is listening.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
Walter Murch supervised the sound work, and its brilliant use is a real high spot of the film. It is hard to recall when sound has been used more effectively, not as mere punctuation but as the solid construction of the entire story.
Arizona Republic
Phil Strassberg
Coppola appears to have written the crunchy, alive script as if he believed Hitchcock would direct it. And then proceeded to direct it with the savvy of a modern Hitchcock.
Newsday
Joseph Gelmis
Francis Ford Coppola, who directed The Godfather and was executive producer of American Graffiti, has masterfully combined technology and ethics in The Conversation so that the form is a seamless expression of the film's content.
Orlando Sentinel
G.J. Fleming
Coppola's use of music and other sound effects is imaginative not only for its effect on the viewer but also for its relation to the gradual breaking down of his hero's exterior reserve. His use of a fine supporting case for Hackman is also noteworthy.
New York Daily News
Kathleen Carroll
It is especially jarring, in the light of recent American history, for it reaffirms the growing suspicion that we are becoming a repressive, Big-Brother-Is-Watching-You society, just as George Orwell predicted in his novel, 1984.
Philadelphia Inquirer
William B. Collins
As a mystery, the film is pretty trashy, relying on a clue which ends up different from the way you remember it. But, as a character study, the picture is wholly absorbing, thanks to another of Gene Hackman's extraordinarily authentic performances.
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
For Hackman, Caul presents a substantial challenge. It is a largely interiorized role in contrast to the action parts on which he has recently built his career. He responds with the most sustained screen performance he has done.
Boston Globe
Kevin Kelly
The Conversation is a provocative movie. And it comes crack at the right time.
Wall Street Journal
Zachary Barnes
The Conversation remains a potent paranoid thriller, at once a deeply personal work for its director and one of the defining artistic documents of a cynical era.
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
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.
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