I wish they had given Jane Fonda's character a better name than "Bree Daniels". They reportedly had a prostitute as a technical adviser on the set and Fonda modeled her performance after some prostitutes she knew in France. She plays a middle-class college educated high priced call girl/actress/model undergoing psychoanalysis.
Donald Sutherland got the good name. He plays John Klute, a uniformed cop from Pennsylvania. He says he's never investigated a missing persons case or spent time in New York, but goes there to try to find out what happened to a wealthy executive he was somehow friends with.
Jane Fonda sort of bothered me in this, but she got an Oscar for it, so what do I know.
Part of Alan Pakula's "Paranoia Trilogy" along with The Parallax View and All the President's Men.
With Roy Scheider.
Jean Stapleton, TV's Edith Bunker, was completely convincing in a small role.
Available on the Criterion Channel.
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