Up Close and Personal

Up Close and Personal (1996) starring Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer. A young woman named Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer) seeks a career in television news, and an old hand named Warren Justice (Redford) takes on the task of training her up from an assistant to an on-air reporter. Naturally, they fall in love. It's a pet peeve of mine, but Redford was 60 when the film was made, and Pfeiffer was 38. I didn't believe the chemistry between them, although toward the end they almost had me convinced. The script for this movie was awfully hackneyed, and it all seemed like an excuse to get the two stars together on screen. (The film offers English subtitles, as well as closed captions.) Grade: C