Synopsis
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
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Cast
- Warren BeattyJoseph Frady
- Paula PrentissLee Carter
- William DanielsAustin Tucker
- Walter McGinnJack Younger
- Hume CronynBill Rintels
- Kelly ThordsenSheriff L.D. Wicker
- Chuck WatersThomas Richard Linder
- Earl HindmanDeputy Red
- William JoyceSenator Charles Carroll
- Betty MurrayMrs. Charles Carroll
Recommendations
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The A.V. Club
The plot doesn’t always make sense, but it doesn’t need to, so thoroughly does it convey a sense that everybody is in on something, and there is no escape. - 80
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Parallax View is Pakula's best to date; its intrigue is honest, its logic unassailable, and its performances first rate. [24 June 1974, p.58] - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The Parallax View will no doubt remind some reviewers of Executive Action, another movie released at about the same time that advanced a conspiracy theory of assassination. It's a better use of similar material, however, because it tries to entertain instead of staying behind to argue. - 75
TV Guide Magazine
This is one of the best political thrillers of the 1970s. - 70
Slate
The mother of all conspiracy movies. - 63
Chicago Reader
As with Pakula's earlier suspenser, Klute, the eerie ambience of menace is coolly and smoothly handled, but for my taste the suspenseful set pieces go on much too long, and the message—that right-wing conspiracy is built into the American political and corporate structure—is overstated. - 60
Variety
The Parallax View is a partially-successful attempt to take a serious subject - a nationwide network of political guns for hire - and make it commercially palatable to the popcorn trade - via chases, fights, and lots of exterior production elements. - 60
Village Voice
A movie of splendid bits and pieces disappointingly strung together. [25 July 1974, p.70]
