The Conversation
3 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
What critics thought
A nearly unanimously praised thriller that has only grown in stature over time, placing Hackman's surveillance expert Harry Caul among cinema's most richly drawn paranoid figures. Critics and institutions alike treat it as one of the essential American films of the 1970s, with its prescient anxieties about technology and privacy feeling sharper with each passing decade.
“one of the most affecting and tragic characters in the movies”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“Made in a flash between the first two Godfather movies, Coppola's existential spy thriller has since become a pinnacle of the genre.”
The Hollywood Reporter
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorFrancis Ford Coppola
StarringGene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
ComposerDavid Shire
The Conversation
3 Oscar Nominations·National Film Registry
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
What critics thought
A nearly unanimously praised thriller that has only grown in stature over time, placing Hackman's surveillance expert Harry Caul among cinema's most richly drawn paranoid figures. Critics and institutions alike treat it as one of the essential American films of the 1970s, with its prescient anxieties about technology and privacy feeling sharper with each passing decade.
“one of the most affecting and tragic characters in the movies”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“Made in a flash between the first two Godfather movies, Coppola's existential spy thriller has since become a pinnacle of the genre.”
The Hollywood Reporter
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast & Crew
DirectorFrancis Ford Coppola
StarringGene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
ComposerDavid Shire