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Blow Out is a 1981 American neo-noir mystery 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, unintentionally captures audio evidence of an assassination involving a presidential hopeful.
Jul 24, 1981 · Blow Out: Directed by Brian De Palma. With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz. A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.
noun. blow· out ˈblō-ˌau̇t. Synonyms of blowout. 1. : a festive social affair. 2. : a bursting of a container (such as a tire) by pressure of the contents on a weak spot. 3. : an uncontrolled eruption of an oil or gas well. 4. : an easy or one-sided victory. 5.
a sudden explosion of a tyre on a road vehicle while it is moving quickly. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Exploding and erupting. blast. blow (someone/something) up. burst in on someone/something. burst in/into (somewhere) controlled explosion. detonate. erupt. explosion. explosively. explosiveness. flame. go off. go pop idiom. go up.
to disappoint someone by not meeting them or not doing something that you had arranged to do together: She was supposed to go to that party with me, but she blew me out. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. (Definition of blow (something) out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Blow Out has John Travolta as a sound engineer for low budget horror movies, who while out recording sounds one night witnesses a car crash and dives into the river to rescue the call girl trapped in the back seat (Nancy Allen).
Blow Out. In the enthralling Blow Out, brilliantly crafted by Brian De Palma, John Travolta gives one of his greatest performances, as a film sound-effects man who believes he has accidentally recorded a political assassination.
