- Release Date: 1971
- Runtime: 114 min
- Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider ... see all
- Director: Alan J. Pakula
- Plot: John Klute's friend has totally disappeared. The only clue a connection with a call girl, Bree Daniels. Klute taps her phone in order to gain evidence against her to blackmail... Read more
User Reviews
A fascinating study leading into the strange world of a complex call-girl
Apr 21, 2008
ironside - imdb.com
Apr 21, 2008ironside - imdb.com
"Klute" was a mixture of lone cop and private eye: a police officer who was hired privately to investigate somebody's disappearance
The trail led him deep into the world of New York call-girls, pimps and drug addicts
It was all... Full review
A vastly overrated performance by Jane Fonda
Jan 12, 2007
bufordtpussing - yahoo.com
Jan 12, 2007bufordtpussing - yahoo.com
Fonda plays a prostitute, Sutherland a hick detective - neither character is well constructed and Fonda overacts and the rave reviews of both her performance and the movie are simply undeserved. A movie that was raved about when it came out... Full review
"Klute" is a terrific showcase for its leading lady, but it isn't much as a thriller...
Mar 16, 2006
moonspinner55 - imdb.com
Mar 16, 2006moonspinner55 - imdb.com
Permeated by a kind of haughty, stoned decadence, Alan J. Pakula's "Klute" concerns a sexy, shaggy prostitute in N.Y.C. who is the only real link to a missing family man from suburbia; a close friend of the man asserts himself... Full review
This Is New York, And You Are Not A Statistic!!!!!!!!
Jan 22, 2006
dataconflossmoor - imdb.com
Jan 22, 2006dataconflossmoor - imdb.com
Jane Fonda plays a prostitute or call girl (The difference being about $75,000.00 a year) and runs into Klute ( a detective,who is investigating a murder)...Jane Fonda's role is whereby she is emotionally neglected, and her inability to cope reflects... Full review
A Classic Film-Noir With Awesome Performance of Jane Fonda
Oct 06, 2005
Claudio Carvalho - imdb.com
Oct 06, 2005Claudio Carvalho - imdb.com
In Pennsylvania, when his old friend, the laboratory engineer Tom Gruneman (Robert Mili), vanishes, detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) is hired by Tom's colleague Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi) to search for him. The unique lead is an obscene letter written... Full review
Good-as-Gold Hooker Story
Apr 28, 2005
garyandsuepq - imdb.com
Apr 28, 2005garyandsuepq - imdb.com
I can't believe that only one user has had a comment on this film after almost 34 years. I remember seeing this film as a undergraduate in 1971. As far as anything goes in 1971, this was as erotic as... Full review
Well, Well, Well,,,,
Apr 10, 2005
cpt_dad - yahoo.com
Apr 10, 2005cpt_dad - yahoo.com
So I get to be the first one to write on Hanoi Jane's Academy Award performance. Sorry, but I thought it was shallow and lame (then again, I am somewhat anti-Jane). The story seemed too slow moving. Donald Sutherland wasn't at... Full review
Jane Fonda is brilliant!
Dec 16, 2004
perfectbond - imdb.com
Dec 16, 2004perfectbond - imdb.com
I agree with the commentator(s) who say the title of this film should be 'Bree' instead of 'Klute.' No offense to Donald Sutherland who is undoubtedly effective in his role, but it is Jane Fonda's wonderfully nuanced performance that really... Full review
Breathtaking, essential, unforgettable.
Dec 30, 2003
chinasyndrome - imdb.com
Dec 30, 2003chinasyndrome - imdb.com
This is without a doubt the most intensely atmospheric film I've ever seen, and certainly the best, tied perhaps only with Chinatown. Pakula's eye shows us the true grit and grime of the city that never sleeps. Klute was packaged... Full review
Artless and surprisingly delicate
Jun 29, 2000
stills-6 - imdb.com
Jun 29, 2000stills-6 - imdb.com
Despite the rough-edges reputation of Pakula, he always manages to give us some beautifully shot, almost fragile images. Like Fonda pondering an envelope full of money and a blank invoice while surrounded by clothing-store dummies; or Sutherland choosing apricots by... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Sep 04, 2008Urban Cinefile
However, Klute is worth a look for the way these old crime thrillers used to be made, and for Fonda, who would go on to birth an exercise revolution and marry a media billionaire.
Most of all, Klute is proof of how a great cinematographer can make a movie even better.
... Full Review
| Mar 09, 2008associatedcontent.com
When she is with them, she considers herself to be the greatest actress in the world.....Bree is a struggling actress and model who finds a power and control as a call girl....Thanks to Fonda's brilliant performance, you can clearly see why..... ... Full Review
| Mar 09, 2008associatedcontent.com
Thanks to Fonda's brilliant performance, you can clearly see why.....Bree is a struggling actress and model who finds a power and control as a call girl....Jane Fonda won one of her two Oscars for her performance in this classic 1970's thriller.....When she is with them, she considers herself to be the greatest actress in the world..... ... Full Review
| Jan 14, 2008iF Magazine
It's one of the cinema's great film noir love themes.
But where PLUMAGE had your typical maniac, KLUTE 's killer was a businessman who represented all that was sacred about the American way.
... Full Review
| Feb 15, 2005DVD Talk
Tout Va Bien is not a bad movie, just a wildly uneven and unnerving one.
Tout Va Bien is not a simple film to appreciate - and it is even more unsettling as a cinematic experience.
... Full Review
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