Here, De Palma pays homage to both Antonioni (the title echoes his "Blow-Up") and Coppola ("The Conversation") in this meditation on filmmaking, exploitation, and political paranoia. It also works as a straight-up thriller. Travolta plays a movie sound engineer who stumbles into a conspiracy involving a political assassination, a sex scandal, and a serial killer (a never-creepier John Lithgow). Downbeat but thoroughly satisfying.
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