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THE CONVERSATION

Francis Ford Coppola · 1974 · U.S. · 113 min

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Screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola NOMINEE Academy Awards® – Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound, 1975 “He’d kill us if he had the chance.” Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece of sustained suspense and paranoia, starring Gene Hackman as a loner surveillance expert. Hackman’s Harry Caul bugs a couple in San Francisco’s teeming Union Square—but why? A recluse living alone in an empty apartment, Caul plays saxophone to jazz records and broods over the deaths he may have been responsible for. And as he keeps tinkering with the recordings, he gets bugged himself, his tapes are stolen, his landlord effortlessly penetrates his security to leave a note—and then, to his horror, he figures it out.