Shining Through
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| Directed by | David Seltzer |
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| Screenplay by | David Seltzer |
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Shining Through by Susan Isaacs |
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| Music by | Michael Kamen |
| Cinematography | Jan de Bont |
| Edited by | Craig McKay |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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132 minutes |
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| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $43.8 million |
Shining Through is an American World War II drama film which was released to United States cinemas on January 31, 1992, written and directed by David Seltzer and starring Michael Douglas and Melanie Griffith, with Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson and John Gielgud in supporting roles. It is based on the novel of the same name by Susan Isaacs. The original music score was composed by Michael Kamen. The film's tagline is: "He needed to trust her with his secret. She had to trust him with her life."
In 1940, Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith), a young woman of Irish/German Jewish parentage, applies for a new job as a secretary with a New York City law firm, but was rejected as she didn't graduate from a prestigious women's college.
Because she can speak German fluently, she becomes translator to Ed Leland (Michael Douglas), a humourless attorney, who is referred to as the "pallbearer" by his peers due to his lack of humor. She gradually comes to suspect that he hides dark secrets. She is proven right when, after America officially joins forces with the Allies, he emerges as a colonel in the OSS. She accompanies him to confidential meetings in New York and Washington D.C., and before long, they become lovers. When he is suddenly posted away, she is left alone and devastated. Assigned to work in the War Department, Linda longs for and hears nothing of Ed until one evening as she sat on her own in a local restaurant-bar he reappears as suddenly as he left with an attractive female officer. Reluctant to resume their affair, he does re-employ her.
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