Blow Out is a 1981 thriller film, written and directed by Brian De Palma. The film stars John Travolta as Jack Terry, a movie sound effects technician from Philadelphia who, while recording sounds for a low-budget slasher film, serendipitously captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential hopeful. Nancy Allen stars as Sally Bedina, the young woman Jack rescues during the crime. The supporting cast includes John Lithgow and Dennis Franz. While in post-production on a low-budget exploitation film, Philadelphia sound technician Jack Terry is told by his director that he... needs more realistic sounding wind. After leaving the studio to record potential sound effects at a local park, he sees a car careen off the road and plunge into a nearby lake. Jack dives into the water to help, discovering a dead man and a young woman, still alive, trapped inside the submerged car. He pulls her to safety and accompanies her to a local hospital. Jack learns that the driver of the car was the governor ; the girl was a prostitute named Sally .
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| Release date: | July 24, 1981 |
| Directed by: | Brian De Palma |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 107 Minutes |
| Producer: | George Litto |
| Editor: | Paul Hirsch |
| Music by: | Pino Donaggio |
| Cinematography: | Vilmos Zsigmond |
| Screenplay by: | Brian De Palma, Bill Mesce Jr. |
| Estimated budget: | $18,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller |