Movie Star Moment: Robert Redford

Robert Redford as Bob Woodward
in "All the President's Men" (1976)

    This scene is all done in closeup in a single shot that goes on for something like six minutes. Robert Redford, playing Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, is in the newsroom working the phones, and ends up juggling two calls from two different sources simultaneously, putting one on hold while he talks to the other. At one point, he forgets who he's talking to and calls one source by the other's name. He quickly corrects himself and the scene goes on, and it's so smoothly handled that it's impossible to tell whether Redford blew a line there and finessed it, or if the goof was in William Goldman's script. It's a brilliant piece of movie acting, either way. Redford nails it.