Klute

Alan J. Pakula · 1971 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A small-town detective comes to New York looking for a missing friend and works back from an obscene letter to a call girl who half-remembers the man who wrote it. She auditions for parts she never gets, tells a therapist why the work suits her, and is taped by someone through her apartment wall. Fonda won the Academy Award, and Pakula went on to make the decade's paranoid thrillers.

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