The Conversation
Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business.
1974 • 115 min • Crime · Drama · Mystery
Our family guide
Best from age 14- 100 Reviewers · 4 · 60%
- 75 Audience · 2072 · 40%
Mtaalamu wa ufuatiliaji anayejificha anapambana na dhamiri yake baada ya kushuku kuwa wanandoa anaowasikiliza watauawa. Anapoendelea kuchunguza zaidi, wasiwasi wake unaongezeka, na kusababisha mgogoro mkubwa wa kimaadili na kutengwa.
- Violence & peril
- 3/10
- Language
- 2/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 1/10
- Scary moments
- 4/10
Heads up
- Majadiliano ya mauaji na uhalifu
- Baadhi ya mada za watu wazima na hali zenye mikazo
- Msisitizo mkubwa juu ya mvutano wa kisaikolojia
What it models well
- Gharama ya kuathiri maadili
- Umuhimu wa uwajibikaji binafsi
- Madhara ya mamlaka yasiyodhibitiwa
Talk about it after
- Maadili ya ufuatiliaji na faragha
- Wasiwasi na athari zake kwa watu binafsi
- Maana ya kutengwa
- Kutafuta ukweli dhidi ya kujilinda
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Top billed cast
Director: Francis Ford Coppola • Crew: Francis Ford Coppola
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Reviewer notes
Recommended“The Conversation” is not what you’d expect - but, it must be said, is fantastic and nearly flawless in its own right. It is more similar to Antonioni’s “Blow” than DePalma’s, and a sense of eeriness flows throughout the work, bolstered by Gene Hackman’s solemn and brooding performance. The best thing about this movie though, is the shocking third act, which I wouldn’t dare spoil here.…
RecommendedGene Hackman is superb here as "Harry" - a super-efficient surveillance expert who discovers in the line of duty that a couple he is monitoring might well be about to be murdered. It becomes clear that the couple - Cindy Williams & Frederic Forrest are having an affair but that is just the tip of the conspiratorial iceberg in this tautly scripted/directed effort from Francis Ford Coppola.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewers"The Conversation" is a tense thriller that explores how paranoia can take over all aspects of everyday life once something disturbing is discovered. Paid to eavesdrop on two people in a public place, Harry Caul ( Gene Hackman ) records the conversation and after some work produces a tape with clarity for his client.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersUnfortunately, it appears with every passing day that the great American paranoid political thrillers of the 60's and 70's, with its strongest work bookended by 'The Manchurian Candidate' (eerily foreseeing the JFK assassination) and 'All the President's Men' (placing a coda of closure on the Watergate scandal), simply haven't aged a day, and are as timely as ever in conceptualizing the palpable fear that ordinary ci…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.5/10 (2,072)
- Age rating
- PG
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $1,600,000
- Box office
- $4,794,457
- IMDb
- tt0071360
