Synopsis
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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Cast
- Jane FondaBree Daniels
- Donald SutherlandJohn Klute
- Charles CioffiPeter Cable
- Roy ScheiderFrank Ligourin
- Dorothy TristanArlyn Page
- Rita GamTrina
- Nathan GeorgeTrask
- Vivian NathanPsychiatrist
- Morris StrassbergGoldfarb Sr.
- Barry SniderBerger
Recommendations
- 100
BBC
Klute still perhaps stands as Pakula's finest moment. Informed in part by the conventions of film noir - duplicitous female, ambitious private investigator, and murky goings on of the sexual variety - Klute manages to distill them all into something highly original and distinctly unsettling. - 90
Chicago Reader
Donald Sutherland works small and subtly, balancing Jane Fonda's flashy virtuoso technique. - 89
Austin Chronicle
Fonda (who received an Oscar) and Sutherland are at the top of their game in this mystery/thriller that also provides a fascinating look into the mind and soul of a top NYC call girl. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
In Klute you don't have two attractive acting vacuums reciting speeches at each other. With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important. - 88
Slant Magazine
Pakula’s seminal detective thriller, which is truly a piercing examination of loneliness. - 80
Time
Klute is a sharp, slick thriller about murder, perversion, paranoia, prostitution and a lot of other wonderful things about life in New York City. - 80
Time Out
For once, a genuinely psychological thriller. - 80
Village Voice
The dread and unease that suffuse the film — never has the peal of a rotary phone sounded more terrifying — seem rooted partly in anxiety over second-wave feminism, the cresting of which nearly coincided with the release of this movie, one that centers on its heroine’s profound ambivalence about growing emotionally attached to a man.
