Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Sabah Hensley This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Danny Blankenship I was never really all that big of a Jane Fonda fan, still if you are to see any movie of her's watch this 1971 picture called "Klute" as Jane glows and shines on screen in a best actress Oscar winning role. "Klute" is a tease film of suspense and mystery drama with themes of sex, lust, truth seeking and murder all of that is jammed into a plot that's a little hard to follow it can challenge a viewer so pay attention.Set in New York city the story centers around Bree(in one of Jane Fonda's best roles) who's a high class escort a call girl type who's life is full of secrets and it's ready to spin out of control, still Bree has wit and she's one sexy thing she's good at her job as her sessions with guys are like that of a socialite girlfriend type and to go with it she's blunt and outspoken with a sassy mouth. Her voice has been taped by a killer, so Bree had better watch out! Now enter detective John Klute(Donald Sutherland)who's hired as a private investigator to follow this case that involves a missing person and the murders of others. And along the way sparks of passion fly between him and Bree. You will be left asking questions who done it and wonder really what's going on as the film takes twist and turns. Overall really good picture of suspense, lust, and mystery that's carried by the performance of Jane Fonda.

skeptic skeptical We all like stories with happy endings, and what better ending could there be than the reclaiming of her life and dignity by a "working girl", a prostitute who slept with thousands of men as a source of income while renouncing the very notion of true love? One fateful day, a dashing detective arrives on the scene to investigate a missing person case and changes her life forever. The plot is suspenseful and well-paced, but more than anything else, Klute offers a very positive view of a prostitute, played by Jane Fonda, who we learn is really an aspiring actress. She hasn't had much luck scoring modeling or theater gigs, so what's a girl to do? Why become a prostitute, of course! Is this how it happens? I know that aspiring actresses are sometimes lured into making porn flicks, tricked into believing that doing so might open doors to the mainstream movie world. But do thespians become hookers? Maybe a few of them do. My impression is that they are more likely to become waitresses and the like. It's true that prostitutes earn more money, but is that enough of a lure to forsake the prospect of intimacy in a normal relationship?No matter. Dreams do come true. Knights in shining armor exist who will overlook years of a woman's turning tricks in exchange for hooking up with them. Donald Sutherland seems pretty sincere, but does this ever really happen in reality? I have to ask.

classicsoncall So I'm pondering the resolution to the murder mystery here and it leads me to the sixty four thousand dollar question - what the heck was Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi) thinking? Unless I'm missing something here, Cable hired private detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) to essentially find himself, who admitted near the finale to Bree (Jane Fonda) that he killed three people. Why not just give himself up instead of making a cat and mouse game out of it? I guess he wanted to jump out of that window.Oh well. I recall this film coming out with some fanfare back in 1971 because of it's subject matter. Fonda and Sutherland were breaking out as legitimate stars and the culture was beginning it's nosedive with movie treatments about free love, prostitution, drugs and you name it. It was epitomized here when Bree defends her lifestyle in a taped conversation with Tom Gruneman - "There's nothing wrong, nothing. Nothing is wrong." This all led to 'let it all hang out' and from there society continues in free fall to this day.In it's day the picture was pretty daring but it would hardly register a ripple today, which is when I saw it for the first time. I'll admit grudgingly that Fonda's performance was pretty good; as for Sutherland, I'll have to blame the director for his lifeless portrayal here as the title character. One could make an argument that this is one of those early Seventies films that are must see, but once it got under way I thought there would be more of a mystery to the story.

blanche-2 Klute is part of Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy which includes the Parallax View and All the President's Men. Someone on this board compared Klute with The Devil's Own and said the latter was a bad film because Ford and Pitt didn't get along. I hope he was kidding. But you can read my review of that thing some other time.I saw Klute on TCM and will have to get it from Netflix and watch it again. It was so dark I could barely see a thing. And in reading the message board, there were scenes described I never saw due to losing my cable signal. So why review it - well, because it is an excellent film without what I missed, with a perfect performance by Jane Fonda.The plot concerns a private detective (Donald Sutherland) searching for a missing man who winds up working with a part-time call girl (Fonda).Pakula has the atmosphere down pat - dark, murky, low class, and seedy, filled with users and drug addicts. Bree is a fascinating character. Once a full-time call girl, she left the lucrative business after taking a terrible beating from a john. She is now an aspiring actress, using an Irish brogue for a Joan of Arc monologue, auditioning for commercials, etc. She takes hooking jobs because she needs the money. She likes the control she has when she's with paying customers. What she fears is a real, intimate, close relationship. Underneath the hard shell is a vulnerable woman afraid of the dark.Klute (Sutherland) rents an apartment in her building as part of his detective work. He tapes her encounters and follows her, finally approaching her to ask about the missing man, Grunemann. The two become lovers.Sutherland and Fonda give very natural performances, realistic and powerful ones. Both characters in a way have hard shells - Klute seems dispassionate, Bree can be abrasive and angry.There was suspense, but Klute succeeds more as a character study than as a thriller, in my opinion, and as the story of two people from two different worlds being drawn to one another, and what that means for the future.A disturbing film with a thought-provoking ending. I look forward to seeing it again, and let's hope I can make out more in the scenes the next time. For a film that took as long as three hours per day to set the lights, there isn't much.