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The Conversation
Cast
Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams View AllCrew
Francis Ford Coppola (Screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (Director) View All
Release: Apr. 7th, 1974
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
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However, I think it adds to the film's overall quality - thriller seems to recently have become a byword for ham-fistedness and poor-quality films, but putting more emphasis on the main character is something that seems to have been bypassed in recent years, and the emotional effects presented here - and in films such as Jacob's Ladder - can be as powerful as the physical ones.

However as I've said before my scores are heavily influenced by my sheer enjoyment of a film, that gut feeling that reallly makes you take to a film, even if you can't particularly describe why.

There's a wonderful moment in the film where Harry realizes he's been bugged and he loses it and Hackman's work in the climax of the film is devastating...or watch how comfortable Harry is when he slips under a hotel bathroom sink to listen to what's going on next door...like he belongs there.