Klute was suggested by our member Colin Marsh, who writes: 'Alan J Pakula’s memorably atmospheric 1971 thriller starring Donald Sutherland and a stunning Best Actress Oscar performance from the wonderful Jane Fonda in the unforgettable role of Bree Daniels..'

With her Oscar-winning turn in Klute, Jane Fonda reinvented herself as a new kind of movie star. Bringing nervy audacity and counterculture style to the role of Bree Daniels—a call girl and aspiring actor who becomes the focal point of a missing-person investigation when detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) turns up at her door—Fonda made the film her own, putting an independent woman and escort on-screen with a frankness that had not yet been attempted in Hollywood. Suffused with paranoia by the conspiracy-thriller specialist Alan J. Pakula, and lensed by master cinematographer Gordon Willis, Klute is a character study thick with dread, capturing the mood of early-1970s New York and the predicament of a woman trying to find her own way on the fringes of society. - The Criterion Collection

Cast:
Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Anthony Holland