The film explores the story of a prostitute woman. This woman called Bree Daniel and all people know her as a confident and powerful woman. For reaching her dream, Daniel didn't shamed of what she do. Besides, she never take notice of the other opinions.
[Fonda] makes all the right choices, from the mechanics of her walk and her voice inflection to the penetration of the girl's raging psyche. It is a rare performance.
Fonda won an Oscar. Roy Scheider is her nasty pimp!
EmanuelLevy.Com
January 03, 2011
Playing a complex, sharpy written part, Jane Fonda won the Best Actress Oscar for her strongest dramatic performance in Alan Pakula's well mounted drmataic thriller
With Fonda and Sutherland, you have actors who understand and sympathize with their characters, and you have a vehicle worthy of that sort of intelligence. So the fact that the thriller stuff doesn't always work isn't so important.
Pakula, when he is not indulging in subjective camera, strives to give his film the look of structural geometry, but despite the sharp edges and dramatic spaces and cinema presence out of Citizen Kane, it all suggests a tepid, rather tasteless mush.
Shadows on the Wall
June 12, 2004
A knock-out
TV Guide
August 30, 2009
Sutherland is either an excellent sounding board for this nuanced portrait or he's a big zero, probably both. Fonda, however, transcends her limitations, making the most of her often forced quality as an actress.
