Blow Out
Murder has a sound all of its own.
While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river.Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president.
- Director
- Brian De Palma
- Signature
- Tension · Craft · Drama
- Worldwide
- $12M
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While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
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Box Office & Release
Blow Out returned 0.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $18M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $12M
- Release date
- Jul 24, 1981
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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