Funny and provocative look at the professional and emotional wrangles of a national TV news team, written and directed with great insight and an uncanny feel for the medium by James L Brooks. Broadcast News boasts and all-star cast: William Hurt as the ambitious, personable newsreader of limited smarts, Holly Hunter as the feverishly bright, vulnerable producer and Albert Brooks as the razor-sharp, cynical reporter with an unrequited love for his boss. There is also a delicious cameo from Jack Nicholson in a film with so much to savour, its tough to find any fault if there is one, its the unnecessary epilogue, which has a slight souring effect.
Broadcast News Review
Jane Craig (Hunter) is a television news producer in love with the kind of monster she usually despises, the pretty-boy anchorman, Grunick (Hurt). Aaron Altman (Brooks), meanwhile is a talented-yet-dull reporter in love with Craig. With production re-shuffles in the offing, who will lose out in their professional and romantic ambitions?
Release Date:
01 Jan 1987
Running Time:
133 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
Broadcast News
In a film tracing the endless battles between style and substance, Brooks delivers both in abundance.
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