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2	[[caption-width-right:700:The UK quad poster for the film.]]
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4	A 1992 American Crime thriller written and directed by Howard Franklin that follows an infamous paparazzo (Creator/JoePesci) investigating a gangster that soon leads him into a dangerous world. Executive produced by Creator/RobertZemeckis.
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6	The movie also stars Creator/BarbaraHershey, Creator/StanleyTucci, Creator/JerryAdler, Creator/DominicChianese, Creator/RichardRiehle, Creator/MaxBrooks, Creator/RichardSchiff, Creator/ChristianStolte, Creator/DelClose, Creator/JackDenbo, Creator/TimothyHendrickson, and Creator/LisaChristakis.
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8	It was released on October 14, 1992.
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10	Not to be confused with the 1972 British Creator/MiaFarrow-starring film with the same name[[note]]Based on a play of that name; its UK release title was ''Follow Me''.[[/note]] or the British TV series ''Public Eye''.
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14	!Tropes for the film:
15	* BigApplesauce: Takes place in New York in the 1940s.
16	* DeadlineNews: Barely averted when a hitman sees Benzy taking photographs and [[LeaveNoWitnesses aims his gun at him]], while [[DissonantSerenity Pesci raises his camera to photograph his own death]]...whereupon a stray bullet kills the hitman before he can fire.
17	* IfItBleedsItLeads: Benzy, a 1940s tabloid photographer. At one point someone mentions that guys like him always carry a pin in case they find an abandoned baby. They stick the baby with the pin before taking the picture because the newspapers pay extra for pictures of crying babies.
18	* {{Paparazzi}}: Benzy (inspired by "Weegee" Fellig). As it's noir film, he's portrayed more as an AntiHero.
19	* {{Tagline}}: "Murder. Scandal. Crime. No matter what he was shooting,, "The Great Bernzini" never took sides, he only took pictures...Except once".
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