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An adaptation of Loren Singer's novel, THE PARALLAX VIEW is a stylish thriller about paranoia from a master of the genre, director Alan J. Pakula (ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN). Warren Beatty stars as Joe Frady, a determined and arrogant investigative reporter who becomes drawn into a conspiracy theory after witnessing the murder of a US Senator in Seattle. He resolves to infiltrate the secretive Parallax Corporation, but while he learns their inner workings, they also know just what he's up to, too.
Synopsis
The second of director Alan J. Pakula's "paranoid trilogy," THE PARALLAX VIEW falls between KLUTE and ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN and of the three films is considered by many to convey the paranoid theme most strongly. The film stars Warren Beatty as investigative journalist Joe Frady whose former girlfriend and colleague Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) witnesses the assassination of a US Senator at the Seattle Space Needle. A government report declares it the work of a lone gunman, but Carter is convinced that a wider conspiracy is at work when eyewitnesses begin showing up dead. Probing deeper, Frady uncovers the operations of the Parallax Corporation which recruits social misfits and uses mind control techniques to turn them into assassins. Frady joins the organization as an undercover operative and gradually becomes aware--as the danger to himself increases--to what extent Parallax has left no angles uncovered. A stylish suspense-thriller, THE PARALLAX VIEW mirrors the political distrust Americans began to feel during the period following the Kennedy assassination, the Vietnam War, and culminating in the Watergate conspiracy.
Film Notes
Shot on location in and around San Francisco, Malibu, and Washington state.
The PARALLAX VIEW was a box office success and helped establish director Pakula as a master of the conspiracy drama.
The film is an adaptation of the novel by Loren Singer.
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