# Éclatement (1981)

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**Original title**: *Blow Out*
**Runtime**: 108 min
**Genres**: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
**Directed by**: Brian De Palma
**Written by**: Brian De Palma, Bill Mesce Jr.
**Starring**: John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz, Peter Boyden, John Aquino

> *Murder has a sound all of its own.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Philadelphia, summer, a car crashing into a river. A movie soundman records the splash, a governor dies, a woman survives. De Palma's sly touch makes the conspiracy all too plausible.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, slow-burn

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