Directed by Coppola, starring Gene Hackman and John cazale. The amazing fact about the movie is that it was made in 1974. The theme explored by Coppola, as he himself narrates in the special features of the dvd, is great for its time. It is about a surveilance expert who evesdrops(sp?) on people for money. He is not supposed to get involved in the lives of people he spies on, but in a particular case, he does get involved and there begins his downfall. Excellent acting and direction. It is a character study, like taxi driver, of a wierd person. But this time, he is less colorful and mostly silent, only paranoid about his privacy. Coppola shows he can make a good small movie, a departure from his other grand projects like Godfather and Apocalypse now.
