'The Passenger': A quiet ride with Jack Nicholson
by Hap Erstein

Identity theft was not a major crime problem in 1975, but that is what television reporter David Locke (Jack Nicholson) perpetrates in The Passenger, a 30-year-old art film from director Michelangelo Antonioni now in re-release. As long as you are prepared for its glacier-like pace and do not demand to know what exactly is going on at every turn, there is enjoyment to be had in this story's enigmatic narrative. Read the full review

TO SUM UP
In the midst of an African civil war, a jaded television reporter (Jack Nicholson) decides to co-opt the identity of a dead stranger and finds that he has taken over the life of an arms smuggler.

FILM FACTS ...
Sony Pictures Classics
'The Passenger'

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff
Run time: 123 minutes
Original release date: Feb. 28, 1975
Re-release date: Oct. 28, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for some violence, nudity and language.
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The Palm Beach Post: B
"Nicholson plays ... with a stillness that we have rarely seen from him in the years since."


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