Blow Out

Jul 24, 1981

1h 48m

★ 7.4

Murder has a sound all of its own.

Overview

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

Cinema 77

Filmways Pictures

Geria Productions

Blow Out Trailers

Cast

Jack Terry

John Travolta

Sally Badina

Nancy Allen

Burke

John Lithgow

Manny Karp

Dennis Franz

Sam

Peter Boyden

Det. Mackey

John Aquino

Lawrence Henry

John McMartin

Hooker

Deborah Everton

Detective at Hospital

J. Patrick McNamara

Coed Lover

Roger Wilson

Coed Lover

Missy Cleveland

Donahue

Curt May

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