 The Passenger (Professione: Reporter)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry, Steven Berkoff
Directed: Michelangelo Antonioni
Screenplay by: Michelangelo Antonioni, Mark Peploe
Release Date: February 28, 1975 (Original Release); Oct. 28, 2005 (NY Re-Release); Nov. 4 (LA Re-Release)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief language and a sexual reference.
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
 Domestic: $620,155 (100.0%)
Foreign: ---
Total: $620,155 (Worldwide)
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 One of Jack Nicholson's best but also least known films, `The Passenger' or `Professione: Reporter).
A melancholy, depressed and jaded television reporter assumes the identity of a dead man while at a hotel in a north African country, not knowing that the man was a renowned arms smuggler. The newsman sees this switch as a last desperate chance to escape his old life and start anew. However, as he begins to take on the characteristics of his new persona and understand his shady involvements, the decision becomes a risky one, which leads a showdown.
David Locke is a television reporter on location in Africa. It's hot, humid, and everything seems to be dirty. Returning to his hotel after getting lost and bogged in the desert, he discovers that the man in the room next to his is dead.
After deciding that his own life wasn't worth living anymore, he switches identities with the dead man, taking the man's passport (with his own photo swapped in), his luggage, and his appointment schedule. Leaving Africa, he heads off to keep the dead man's appointments, hoping that his new life will be more interesting than his old one was.
Originally released in 1975, The Passenger is, on the simplest level, a suspense story about a man trying to escape his own life. This haunting film is a portrait of a drained journalist, played by Jack Nicholson, whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man. The film was shot on location and takes Nicholson on an incredible journey through Africa, Spain, Germany and England.
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