The Discussion is a 1974 American enigma thriller movie created, generated, as well as routed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Teri Garr, as well as Robert Duvall. The film rotates around a security expert and also the moral issue he faces when his recordings disclose a possible murder. Coppola mentioned the Michelangelo Antonioni thriller Blowup (1966) as an essential impact. Since the film was released to cinemas just a couple of months before Richard Nixon surrendered as president, however, he felt that target markets interpreted the movie as being a response to the Watergate scandal. The Discussion premiered at the 1974 Cannes Movie Celebration, where it won the Palme d'Or, the celebration's highest prize, and also was theatrically launched on April 7, 1974 by Paramount Pictures to essential acclaim however ticket office disappointment, earning $4.2 million on a $1.6 million budg...